THE INAUTHENTIC EARTH FLAG

‘Seeking a symbol through which all people of the world could find hope, John McConnell created the Earth Flag in 1969. The first Earth Flag was a two-color silkscreen with white to represent clouds and blue to represent oceans. Purposefully, there were no land masses to represent territory, boundaries and borders. Now adorned with a full-color photograph of Earth, taken from outer space, the Earth Flag is still the only flag for all people. The Earth Flag sold through www.earthflag.net is the only "Authentic Earth Flag" with a direct link to John and Anna McConnell’. Source: http://earthflag.net/history.html

The Earth Flag was included in the exhibition as it specifically symbolises and encapsulates much of the mid-late 20th century counterculture of utopian and environmental globalism that has since been overtaken by a dystopian globalisation in which the Net is deeply entangled and implicated. The actual artefact in the exhibition was, however, an inauthentic earth flag as it was mistakenly ordered from another website which then shipped the 'Taiwan ROC' made version to Glasgow within 12 hours for the overall cost of £7.99. An example of global economic development doing no good for the planetary environment the Earth Flag represents.

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