Conversation

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Description
Prompting a continuum between nature and culture, between species, and among the senses, Kac’s work questions the structures, mediations, and ultimately the supremacy of vision in art, while promoting synesthetic experiences that rearticulate individual consciousness within social, cultural, and finally environmental realms. In addition, his work addresses issues of spectatorship by emphasizing participatory action and two-way communication. Kac’s hybrid networks of physical and virtual spaces dislocate audiences within environments that examine how vision, touch, hearing and voice are facilitated and constrained by the structures and mediation of technology. Within his networked environments, dialogical communication among humans, animals, plants, microorganisms and machines is never given, but instead must be construed by participants word-by-word, frame-by-frame.
Keywords
  • subjects
    • Media and Communication
      • television
  • technology
    • hardware
      • scanners
Technology & Material
Material
Six frames from "Conversation" a Slow-Scan TV work by Eduardo Kac
realized at the Centro Cultural Três Rios, in São Paulo, on November 17, 1987.
Slow-Scan TV allowed the transmission/reception of sequential still video images
over regular phone lines. It took from eight to twelve seconds to form each image.
Instead of considering each picture as a final form or the sequence of images
as illusion of movement, Kac explored the live process of image formation.
Bibliography
  • Kac, Eduardo. »Telepresence Art and Net Ecology.« In The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology on the Internet, edited by Ken GoldbergCambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.
  • Kac, Eduardo and Marcel.li Antunez Roca. »Robotic Art.« Leonardo Electronic Almanac 5, no. 5 (May 1997).
  • Kac, Eduardo. »Interactive Art on the Internet.« In Ars Electronica 1995. Welcome to the Wired World, edited by Peter Weibel and Karl Gerber, 170-179. Wien, New York: Springer Verlag, 1995.
  • Kac, Eduardo. »Sur la notion d`art en tant que dialogue visuel.« In Art-Reseaux, edited by Karen O'Rourke, 20-23. Paris: Centres d`Etudes et de Recherches en Arts Plastique, Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1992.