Telepath
by Michele Vittori
portfolio special mention call 'URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2020', 2020
At the beginning of the 1960s, the first civil telecommunications space station in Italy was inaugurated in the Fucino plain, in Abruzzo, thanks to which the first satellite television broadcasts of the most important international events were carried out, including space missions and in 1969 television broadcast of the moon landing, laying the foundations for the birth of the information society.
On April 30, 1986, through the Fucino teleportation antennas and a project from the University of Pisa, the first connection to the American Arpanet network, a precursor of the Internet network, was created.
Italy is among the first countries to enter the digital age, which in a few years will bring enormous social, economic and political changes.
This series aims to connect man, the territory and the development of telecommunications and to reflect on the visual construction of reality through the technological imaginary.