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Weston, Edward. Photograph, Nude. 1925.
Wyeth, Andrew. Painting, Christina’s World. 1948.
Poem, “ words”. 2002.

The wireless world is portrayed in this composition as the nostalgia for the ordered and simple world of Wyeth’s picture of Christina’s farm. Weston’s nude reiterates the curve of Christina’s body reclining in the field. The assemblage of pictures and the words beginning with the letter “W”, construct the glyph for the letter "W". The page of the letter "A" emphasizes text, while this page considers’ the viewing frame and the visual act.

Fillippo Marinetti’s “The Wireless Imagination” (1913), an early use of the term wireless, anticipates several aspects of postmodern aesthetics including the dissolution of the lyric I and the inquiry into the mechanics of perceptual apparatus. His typographic experiments sought to achieve an immediacy of transmission via a new syntax of written language. The Futurists quest for immediacy of transmission is mechanically achieved via the infrastructure of computerized communication networks.   

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