In which circumstances or on what occasion did you introduce [electricity or electronics] TELEMATICS or THE NETWORK into your work?

Approximately 30 years ago, I came up with a concept of electrical and electronic control and computing systems attached to my body, and then around twenty years ago, reduced many of these ideas to practice in the form of a wearable computer system that might now be called a "multimedia" computer attached to my body for visual art (mediated reality, etc.). The circumstances around this invention have evolved from an exploration into living in a photographically mediated reality toward holding a mirror up to society's Surveillance Superhighway.

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.

On the technical side, I formulated a new mathematical framework for Personal Imaging (wearable sensory and computational apparatus), such as the Chirplet Transform (http://wearcam.org/chirplet.htm) for such applications as assisting the blind or visually challenged with some miniature radar systems I designed and built in the 1980s.
Much of this work in Personal Imaging also evolved into its own visual aesthetic of "Lightspace Imaging" (see for example IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 9, No. 8, http://wearcam.org/comparam.htm).

On the aesthetic side, this theory of "Lightspace Imaging" gives rise to new forms of visual art.

According to you, which are the consequences that can arise from the combination of art and contemporary TELEMATIC technology?

In the limit, as we become one with the machine, the boundary between thinking and computing, and between remembering and recording, may disappear. Moreover, Humanistic Intelligence (intelligence arising from the human being in the feedback loop of computational processes), when connected (e.g. wireless communications, etc.) could give rise to a connected collective H.I. experience. Such an entity would challenge the notion of identification (ID cards, and the ability to isolate actions to a specific individual). A possible consequence, therefore, could be the collapse of the concept of intellectual property.