Telematic Connections
dal 6/2/2001 al 25/3/2001
Segnalato da
6/2/2001
Telematic Connections
Art Institute, San Francisco
In addition to web-based work, the exhibition explores the idea of the network prior to the existence of the Web and includes a historic context for the exhibition's contemporary works via an 'open source' timeline to which anyone can add pertinent events and commentary.
The Virtual Embrace.
"Since the middle of the 20th century, telematic systems have been connecting the world in an ever-tightening "virtual embrace". Rather than focusing on interactive artworks that react only with the local viewer, or online works that exist exclusively in cyberspace, "Telematic Connections" presents hybrid works that explore computer-mediated connections between distant parties, whether human to human, human to machine, machine to machine, or even human to nature.
What the viewer/participant does in the installations, or via a terminal interface, has some effect on, or is affected by, someone or something located somewhere in physical space."
In addition to web-based work, the exhibition explores the idea of the network prior to the existence of the Web and includes a historic context for the exhibition's contemporary works via an "open source" timeline to which anyone can add pertinent events and commentary.
Telematic Connections is comprised of some forty works by twenty-five artists, and includes both "classic" and new installations and online projects, including:
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz - "The Electronic Cafe";
Roy Ascott - "La Plissure du Text";
Paul Sermon - "Telematic Vision".
Opening Reception - February 7 - from 5.30 to 7.30 pm
Walter & McBean Galleries - San Francisco Art Institute - 800 Chestnut St. - San Francisco CA