"For as long as we have been thinking about, designing, and programming this inaugural issue of Vectors, a war has been taking place half way around the world."

"These bottom-up technological efforts provided valuable services and some comfort in the wake of the disaster, particularly given the slow response of the federal government."

"It is with equal degrees of irony and hopefulness that we present these works of excavation, rumination and preservation in a form that will soon confront its own likely disappearance."

"He went on to describe his visual memories of the country as framed by the shape of and technologies in the cockpits he inhabited -- as vast, panoramic fields of green and brown punctuated and made meaningful by the overlays of his viewfinder and the contours of his windshield."

"The project toggles across scales, moving fluidly between theoretical paradigm and lived reality and resisting the temptation to fix the meaning of the carpets in only one register or place."