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Otherspace: Martian Ty/opography is a study of the ways in which technology, communication, and representation cross historical and cultural boundaries to produce new forms of (mis)information. A scientist receives a series of images transmitted through her computer from an unknown source--which turns out to be the sentient being of the planet Mars. Attempting to seduce her with these communications, the planet succeeds in demonstrating the extent to which human understanding of the being’s identity has been grounded in misconceptions and misrepresentations. Images of the planet Mars, from the first recorded observations of the planet in the seventeenth century to current NASA photographs, were used as the basis of the visual materials in this book. The aspects of seduction unfold at several levels--the seduction of the woman by the planet through a slow techno-flirtation, the education of the reader by the intensifying color and narrative confusion of the book, and the seduction of the artists by the computer’s capacity to transform and manipulate the very information ‘base’ in which the images were coded in the electronic darkroom.” B.F. & J.D.

	B.F.
1951	born
1975	B.A. Florida State University, Tallahassee
1991	M.F.A University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
	Lecturer, State University of New York at Purchase
	J.D.
1952	born
1973	B.F.A. California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
1982	M.A. University of California, Berkeley
1982	P.H.D. University of California, Berkeley
	Associate professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT both artists live in New Haven, CT