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La Plissure du TexteArtist: Roy AscottComment:

The installation is a 2-level
schematization of this telematic Gaia. One level is presented
in tents, with computer graphic images contributed by networkers
around the world, and which can be further manipulated by
participants in the tents....

The «daily news» was the theme of this project in which more than 100 artists on three continents participated. The artists worked with computers, video text, slow-scan-TV, and telefax. The live activities in Venice lasted a period of 14 days,...

Creation Myth describes the birth of a new environment utilizing unique fractal and particle system software. It was designed for exhibition on Palladium's 50 monitor video display system.

(Rebecca Allen)

Steady State was commissioned by TVE (Television of Spain) for a 14 part television series titled El Arte del Video (The Art of Video). This piece and other work by Allen were featured in the program, Computers in Video Art.

(Rebecca Allen)

This work examines the ways we communicate through our behavior. Commissioned by Rebo High Definition Studios, New York, it is the first example of computer animation recorded to the HDTV (High Definition Television) format.

Animation was created...

Allen created all visual material for the 1986 album Electric Cafe by the German group Kraftwerk including the classic, award-winning music video, Musique Non Stop. This work involved the development of state-of-the-art facial animation software in...

The next period in Seaman's oeuvre employed video as a poetic technological vehicle, exploring sound, image and text relations within a slow pulsing hypnotic video space. Both linear tapes and video installations were produced. The tapes S.He (1983),...

LORNA
1979-1983 A.D.
A.D. "A precondition to video is that it does not talk back. It absorbs, rather than reflects."
Preliminary Notes, 1981

While video was like a reflection that did not talk back, interactive works were like a trick, two...

The next interactive piece, DEEP CONTACT (1989), directly involves the body of the viewer/participant who were required to touch the computerscreen. Viewers choreograph their own encounters in the vista of voyeurism by actually putting their hand on...