Deborah Ligorio, Wired Under Water, 1999, video, 5 min.

Deborah Ligorio, Wired Under Water, 1999, video, 5 min

Underwater Camera: Katharina Nicolaus
Underwater Lighting: Fabio Leonardi
Video Editing: Erik Lambert at Acquarelli Studio
Produced by: Palazzo Delle Papesse Contemporary Art Center, Siena and Telecom Italia.

Wired Under Water, the making of

Making-of photograph of Deborah Ligorio’s Wired Under Water (1999), showing Katharina Nicolaus preparing underwater equipment.
Artist portrait of Deborah Ligorio during the making of Wired Under Water (1999).
Equipment preparation for shooting during the making of Wired Under Water (1999).
Katharina Nicolaus and Fabio Leonardi preparing to dive during the making of Wired Under Water (1999).
  • Going Through The Garbag
    For "Wired Under Water, video, 1999", Deborah organized and directed an expedition to film a submarine telecommunications cable. In the video, the underwater camera traces the cable, parting seaweed fronds and scattering fish as it glides through space. The meshes of leaves obscure the cable beneath them. Algae and other plants have grown on the cable blending it into its environment. The work grew from curiosity about the relationship between the architecture within the Internet, the interface, sites and appearance of the virtual space with which we are all familiar, and the actual infrastructure needed to support it. In this way, it was an attempt to uncover/discover something inaccessible and invisible, to reveal the physical thing containing so much activity, and to view concretely something as massively abstract as the flow of information.