Long before the NYC-Dublin Portal, this groundbreaking artwork connected Montreal and Paris

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Looking through The Tunnel Under the Atlantic from Paris to Montreal in 1995.

Maurice Benayoun’s VR landmark The Tunnel Under the Atlantic brought together visitors at the Musée d'art contemporain and the Centre Pompidou way back in 1995.It's been just over a week since its launch and the portal between New York City and Dublin has already caused major ripples in the fabric of our space and time.

, a groundbreaking work of interactive art similarly joined viewers on either side of the pond with a real-time connection between Montreal and Paris? Yes, back before FaceTime, Zoom calls and video chats made the technology feel commonplace, in the early days of the internet, there wasThe Tunnel Under the Atlantic from the Montreal side in 1995 at the Musée d'art contemporain.

"I was interested in the idea of culture as an obstacle," the artist says. The work suggested that culture, though a bedrock of identity, was also a barrier that needed to be broken through for communication.

 

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