Back in 1990, this was something to talk about...

When ever time becomes too present in an art work, we know that something other than art dominates its content. In Robert Teeple's Electric Lascaux, which is the University Street Station, this other is technology. Indeed, the work has almost no art content and instead fills us with the exact same feeling we get when watching an old science fiction film that has lots of bright buttons (press this one for warp drive, this one for lasers, this one to speak to ground control). We feel a kind of embarrassment for the people of that time, for those who stopped and thought: This is it, this is so wonderful, this is the cutting edge.