Gustavo Murillo Fernández-Valdés is a visual artist and educator living and working in New York City. He attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, holds an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts and a degree in Humanities from the Pompeu Fabra University. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts and BMCC.
“About five years ago, on my voyage to Europe, the electrical experiment of Franklin, upon a wire some four miles in length, was casually recalled to my mind in conversation with one of the passengers, in which experiment it was ascertained that the electricity travelled through the whole circuit in a time not appreciable, but apparently instantaneous. It immediately occurred to me that, if the presence of electricity could be made visible, in any desired part of the circuit, it would not be difficult to construct a system of signs by which intelligence could be instantaneously transmitted. – Samuel Ireneus Prime, The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse, LL. D.”