BIT Plane

BIT Plane

film/video
1999
14'
us
BIT Plane by Bureau of Inverse Technology
BIT Plane by Bureau of Inverse Technology

A critical “aero-anthropological” study of Silicon Valley. The Bureau of Inverse Technology deploys its radio-controlled model “spy plane” on a mission deep into the glittering heart of the computer industry to investigate the progress of the Information Age. Due to its refined dimensions BIT plane is able to enter territory inaccessible to other aircrafts. The video generated in this exercise includes reconnaissance footage retrieved from the no-camera zones of Apple, Atari, Hewlett Packard, Interval Research, Lockheed, NASA Ames, Netscape, Oracle, Silicon Graphics International, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo, and Xerox.

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