At the Periphery of the Galvanosphere

Waking up in Europe involves flipping a dozen electrical switches that readjust the environment to our needs: silencing the alarm clock, turning on the bathroom light, switching on the hob... we manage the power supply like half a billion little elves. A third of us (according to Eurostat1) will spend the rest of the day tapping away at a computer keyboard to modulate this same electrical flow into numbers and digital messages.Our households consume a third of the available watts, industry another third, and services almost the rest, leaving barely 2% for agriculture. Finally, there is that excited hesitation, that magnetic tremor at the extreme periphery of the galvanosphere, which is called ‘electronic art’...