Skinner's Room

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The motif of Skinner’s room recurs through William Gibson’s Bridge trilogy as a place of refuge. It is a shack knocked together from salvage, suspended high on the bridge tower, a place where things and images, old tech and new tech are recombined into makeshift forms. A space for assimilation, where stories are woven together and electricity applied.
It is the birds-nest vantage point of a post-devaluation community. In Gibson’s world metaphor is ‘a component like acapacitor’. Here the thought-form fiction of Skinner’s Room is the imaginary location to collect the works manifest in this real life show: A glitched lunar eclipse, a lacquered board, the crackling sound of code dysfunction, a star field of full stops, a speculative map of sound samples, wooden three letter words and a print, painted over, that could just be an image of Skinner’s Room.
We didn’t decide anything.
But somehow it happened.
From Five Years you can see the city

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