In which circumstances or on what occasion did you introduce
[electricity or electronics] TELEMATICS or THE NETWORK into your
work?
I began to think of the possibilities in 1979 with the interactive
laser disk LORNA. I wanted to include audience choice and make that
part of the aesthetic, and have been doing this ever since. As far
as networks, that happened in 1994 when i wanted to expand the idea
to incorporate telerobotically accessing many people, which could
be interactive on both the real world and virtual worlds. This piece
became both tillie the telerobotic doll as well as the Difference
Engine 3. now I can barely conceive of a work that does not
incorporate this access.
How can you describe the technical and aesthetical part played
by [electricity] TELEMATICS in the work you will be showing in the
[Electra] TELEMATIC CONNECTIONS exhibition? Please give your comments
as regards these points.
See above. The technical capabilities become the aesthetic. I like
to see and incorporate the strategies of telematics.
According to you, which are the consequences that can arise
from the combination of art and contemporary TELEMATIC technology?
I think the most important and dynamic consequences have not yet
been conceived. It is a nonlinear, connective communication that
is its own language, which builds on information and uses agency
as collective identity.
*These questions are based on ones asked by Frank Popper of the artists
in his seminal exhibition Electra: Electricity and Electronics
in the Art of the 20th Century in 1983 at the Musée d'Art Moderne
de la Ville Paris
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