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South Bay Cable Cutters revisits two incidents of fiber optic cable sabotage in San Jose, and zooms out to look at their impacts on infrastructure, communications, development, and people's lives. The talk layers in voices of Bay Area residents from news sources, survivalist internet forums, interviews, and press releases. Together with the artist, they freely speculate on the practical and metaphorical effects of a large scale internet outage, as well as the motivations behind these still unsolved crimes.
South Bay Cable Cutters was produced for Place Talks Season 1 at the Prelinger Library, and visual materials in the talk were sourced from the library's holdings, site photos, and the web.