Reabracadabra

Eduardo Kac

Reabracadabra , 1985 – ongoing

Co-workers & Funding

presented by Companhia Telefônica de São Paulo

http://www.ekac.org/VDTminitel.html

Mnemosyne

Last updated: 2010-10-26

Documents

Reabracadabra

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Stills of the animated videotex (minitel) poem "Reabracadabra"

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Description

Reabracadabra, 1985 - Videotext animated poem shown in 1985 in the group exhibition Arte On-Line, a national videotext art gallery presented by Companhia Telefônica de São Paulo.

In 2003 Reabracadabra was adapted for cel phones.

Keywords

subjects
- Arts and Visual Culture
  - poetry
technology
- software
  - video (digital)

Technology & Material

Interface

Minitel animated poem shown online in 1985 in the group exhibition "Arte On-Line", a minitel art gallery presented by Companhia Telefônica de São Paulo. An incantatory word of Kaballistic resonance is rendered as a cosmic monolith following the atomic model (the vowel as nucleus and the consonants as orbiting particles).

Interface

Videotext (Minitel), terminal

Material

Minitel (Télétel and/or Transpac) Network, terminal (modem, text-only screen, keyboard), telephone lines.

Exhibitions & Events

Print, Fold, Send

2019

Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966)

2016

Bibliography

MiRAA Mixed Reality Academy for the Arts. »MiRAA IN CONVERSATION with VR artists Tamiko Thiel and Eduardo Kac.« https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9DPDHaeCqc.
Bohn, Williard. Reading Visual Poetry. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson, 2011.
Kac, Eduardo, ed. Media Poetry: An International Anthology. 2 th ed.Bristol: intellect, 2007.
Kac, Eduardo. »Live from Mars.« Leonardo 31, no. 1 (1998): 1-2.
Kac, Eduardo. »Origin and Development of Robotic Art.« Art Journal 56, no. 3 (1997): 60-67.
Kac, Eduardo. »Holopoetry, Hypertext, Hyperpoetry.« In Proceedings of the Holographic Imaging Conference, SPIE 2043, Bellingham, WA: Holographic Imaging and Materials (Proc. SPIE 2043), Tung H. Jeong, Editor (Bellingham, WA: SPIE,, 1993.

6 publications