Tag Archive for "telematic art"
From the home page of Virtual Street Corners, a public art project by John Ewing with Boston Cyberarts & the Knight Foundation
This project looks great, and I’m excited to see it, but I do hope that by launch time there is at least some acknowledgment of Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz’s pioneering Hole In Space (1980) project between LA and New York, which informed their LA Olympics original Electronic Cafe (1984), which had some of the same explicit goals of creating virtual discourse and sociability between geographically divided neighborhoods.
Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, Hole In Space, 1980. Via Media Art Net.
Nam June Paik Art Center (under construction). Photo S. Dietz
As much as I complain about the non-intersection of the so-called contemporary art world and the art formerly known as new media, recently a prestigious international jury consisting of Hank Bull, executive director of Center A in Vancouver; Doryun Chong, associate curator at The Museum of Modern Art in New York; Udo Kittelman, director of the National Galleries, Berlin; Tetsuo Kogawa, artist and professor at Keizai University, Tokyo; and Barbara Vanderlinden, Belgian curator and author, selected media pioneer Robert Adrian X to split the $50,000 Nam June Paik Art Center Award with Eun-me Ahn, Ceal Floyer and Seung-taek Lee.
Ars Electronica invites artists and scientists to submit proposals for new and novel ways to connect, in real time, people to people and people to environments in different physical locations. The goal is to expand and explore meaningful exchanges between remote groups of people.
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