Artist Ingrid Burrington’s book, Networks of New York, contains more than one hundred pages on just one color category of utility in one city: the orange that designates network infrastructure in the Big Apple. Her volume dives deeply into the history of competing telecoms,
When asked how he knew this local story of university history, Marr explained that he had read it on a plaque prominently placed right outside the building where he was speaking and that his motto is to “always read the plaque.”
“We wanted something that was memorable but meaningless,” Baldwin later explained in an interview, “so we could educate people as to what it means.”