Lytle Shaw. Cable Factory 20 Berkel...

Lytle Shaw. Cable Factory 20 Berkeley, Calif.: Atelos, 1999

The artist Robert Smithson would frequently make "site-selections," in which he would photograph a large-scale industrial exhibit In a sort of inverse entropy the finished construction would eclipse the non-utilitarian abstract artistic aspect of a dam, for example: "[The Pine Flat Dam] is seen as a functionless wall. When it functions as a dam it will cease being a work of art and become a utility." [1] Another important idea for Smithson was the "non-site," which designated an abstraction