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Eduardo Kac. Videotext Telepresence Telecommunications. new insights can be gained by examining artworks that are themselves real dialogues…. Digital Artist for over 30 years Challenged conventions of traditional art w orld Constantly exploring new uses for digital media - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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EDUARDO KAC
VIDEOTEXT TELEPRESENCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS
NEW INSIGHTS CAN BE GAINED BY EXAMINING ARTWORKS THAT ARE THEMSELVES REAL DIALOGUES…
Digital Artist for over 30 years
Challenged conventions of traditional art world
Constantly exploring new uses for digital media
Helped engineer a number new fields in digital art
…that is, active forms of communication between
two living entities
DIGITAL ART FIELDS
Videotext
Telecommunications
Telerobotics
Telepresence
PARTICIPANT INTERACTION AND COMMUNICATION
Accessible online during
Brazil High-Tech (1986)
Animated Poem
Series of Lines and
Shapes assemble into
letters and then words
Erotic-lyrical statement
Viewer must experience
animation to understand
message behind poem
VIDEOTEXT - TESÃO
Also created in 1986 Features the assemblage
of what appears to be an ordinary UPC barcode
Numbers refer to the date piece was created and uploaded
Letters form the word Deus (God) isolating the eu (Latin for I)
Questions man’s relationship to God, man to consumerism, God to labeling and identity by computer
VIDEOTEXT – D/EU/S
NEW MEDIA ART IS COLLABORATIVE AND INTERACTIVE…
…and abolishes the state of unidirectionality traditionally characteristic
of literature and art.
Telecommunication art refers to works created
with telecommunication equipment
Based on interactions between two or more
people
Recreate the spontaneity of a verbal conversation
Two groups of artists – one in Chicago, the other in Pittsburgh
Images of the artists’ faces transmitted live via slow-scan television
Spontaneous, improvised images reflected the unpredictable nature of conversations
Idea of ‘collective identity’
Visual dialog
TELECOMMUNICATION –INTERFACES (1990)
Kac, as creator, gave up a considerable amount of control over the final object
Information in flux, negotiating meaning between artist and participant, and communication as an experience – all more important than an art object
Visuals merely document the process
TELECOMMUNICATIONINTERFACES
I WANTED TO ENABLE THE PARTICIPANT TO CROSS THE SCREEN…Telepresence art “creates invented worlds populated by imaginary creatures embodied in electronic parts”
Combines visual messaging and bilateral dialog with remote experience and robotics
Participant can experience remote spaces through a different point of view
…and gain a sense of his or her own presence in a remote social
milieu
Began in 1989 in Chicago with hardware engineer Ed Bennett
Developed through 1996, comprising of six telepresence events
Ornitorrinco is Portuguese for “platypus”
Objectives: Create a remote world for participants to explore, imply kinship between animal and robot, and highlight hybridity
TELEPRESENCE – ORNITORRINCO (1989 – 96)
Hybrid between robot and human
Participant remained at one location and remotely controlled robot at a second location
Participants could see the created space from Ornitorrinco’s point of view
Participants had to rethink preconceived notions of scale, spatial relationships, and navigation
TELEPRESENCEORNITORRINCO
ORNITORRINCOSTILL SHOTS
Each person constructs a personal mental image of the space
Mental image is based on the images the participant sees through the robot
Movement is physically real, but the constructed mental image of the space comes from images on screen
The passage between two spaces defines the nature of Telepresence communication
TELEPRESENCEORNITORRINCO
EDUARDO KAC
VIDEOTEXT Experience animated messages
TELECOMMUNICATIONS Bilateral communication
TELEPRESENCE Communication to understand space