February 18, 2005
ORNITORRINCO IN THE SAHARA
Dialogical Telepresence Event
"On October 5, 1996, Ed Bennett and (Eduardo Kac) participated in the IV Saint Petersburg Biennale with a dialogical telepresence event entitled Ornitorrinco in the Sahara. The phrase "dialogical telepresence event" refers to a dialogue between two remote participants who interacted in a third place through two bodies other than their own. Telepresence refers to the experience of having a sense of one's own presence in a remote space (and not the sense of somebody else's remote presence, as is common on the telephone). Realized in a public area of a downtown building in Chicago,..the event...consisted basically of three nodes linking the downtown site in real time to The Saint Petersburg History Museum... and the Aldo Castillo Art Gallery, located in the well known Chicago gallery district. Through these telecommunications ports of entry human remote subjects interacted with one another by projecting their wills and desires onto equally remote and fully mobile, wireless telerobotic and telecyborg objects."
Other Articles by Eduardo Kac:
TELEPRESENCE ART
DIALOGICAL TELEPRESENCE ART AND NET ECOLOGY
NEGOTIATING MEANING: THE DIALOGIC IMAGINATION IN ELECTRONIC ART
BEYOND THE SCREEN: NEW DIRECTIONS IN INTERACTIVE ART
INTERACTIVE ART ON THE INTERNET
TELEPRESENCE ART
ASPECTS OF THE AESTHETICS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
WRAP AROUND THE WORLD
Posted by jo at February 18, 2005 09:09 AM
