BIT Plane  
00:13:00 1999

BIT Plane is a highly compact spy plane, wingspan 20 inches, radio-controlled, video-instrumented and deployed over areas of scenic interest. Due to its refined dimensions, BIT plane is able to enter territory inaccessible to other aircraft. Pioneering flight: in an aerial reconnaissance over the Silicon Valley, California 1997, BIT plane flew solo and undetected into the glittering heartland of the Information Age. Video generated in this exercise includes footage retrieved over no-camera zones Apple, Lockheed, Nasa Ames, Netscape, Xerox Parc, Interval Research, Atari, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, Yahoo, SGI, Sun Microsystems.

 

Biography of Bureau of Inverse Technology

First Prize. 2001 ZKM Independent Media Art Award

Titles by Bureau of Inverse Technology:

BIT Plane

Suicide Box


Work by Bureau of Inverse Technology also appears on:

Anthology: Frames of Reference: Reflections on Media

Anthology: The New McLennium