frying snap

It is said that in certain parts of New York, on the tops of tall buildings belonging to corporations who transmit data between sites by micro-wave, that roosting birds are sometimes cooked by data. Television signals, computer information, text or graphics. Photographs perhaps? Killed by images.

from: Wombell, P.(ed.). (1991)Photovideo: photography in the age of the computer. London: Rivers Oram Press {p.79}