BIO
Tanit Plana Pessarrodona (Barcelona, 1975) is a graduate in Audiovisual Communication from Universidad Pompeu Fabra.
PROJECT
Her project ‘Nice to meet you, Mr.Kleinrock’ is an homage to the Frontiers of Knowledge Award winner in the category of Information and Communication Technologies.
Tanit Plana bases her work on Kleinrock’s achievement in 1969 of getting two computers to communicate for the first time. She proposes making a trip from her computer to that of Kleinrock in UCLA, node by node along the physical route made by an e-mail in fractions of a second via the Internet.
It will be an exploration of the beginnings of the Internet, through thousands of kilometers of cables, millions of antennas, and satellites: an in-depth examination of the mechanisms related to the Internet that are hidden from the public eye.