Retrato Suposto- Rosto Roto

Eduardo Kac

Retrato Suposto- Rosto Roto , 1988

Co-workers & Funding

Mario Ramiro

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Last updated: 2010-11-03

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Retrato Suposto

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Description

Telecommunications event between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo uniting fax and live TV, 1988. Connecting the public medium of television with the private medium of the fax this work created a system of feedback based on the continuous exchange and transformation of images. Ramiro was in São Paulo in the studios of TV Cultura and was connected to Kac by means of a fax in his studio in Rio de Janeiro. The basis of this link was a real time operation utilizing the fax as a dialogic medium in the context of a television broadcast, a unidirectional system of mass communication. The goal was not to create pictures remotely but to explore the interactive, improvisational quality of both personal and public telecommunications media simultaneously, integrating the apparently antagonist media into a single process.

Keywords

aesthetics
- assembled
- telematic
genres
- telematic art
subjects
- Media and Communication
  - television

Technology & Material

Installation Requirements / Space

Connecting the public medium of television with the private medium of the fax this work created a system of feedback based on the continuous exchange and transformation of images. Ramiro was in São Paulo in the studios of TV Cultura and was connected to Kac by means of a fax in his studio in Rio de Janeiro. The basis of this link was a real time operation utilizing the fax as a dialogic medium in the context of a television broadcast, a unidirectional system of mass communication.

Exhibitions & Events

Bibliography

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.

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