Spacescapes

Source: Eduardo Kac

Eduardo Kac

Spacescapes , 1989 – ongoing

Co-workers & Funding

Dana Moser, Carlos Fadon and the DAX Group
See Also: "Three City Link" (1989)

https://www.ekac.org/spacescapes.html

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Last updated: 2022-02-16

Documents

Spacescape 1

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Spacescapes 2

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Spacescape 3

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Description

In 1989, Eduardo Kac transmitted from Chicago his artwork Spacescapes via slow-scan television simultaneously to Pittsburgh (to the DAX Group) and to Boston (to a group led by Dana Moser). The transmission took place in the context of the Three-City Link event. In Spacescapes, 1989, an alternating sequence of satellite views and microscopic images of digital circuits fused into one another at the receiver's end, forming an electronic palimpsest in which large and small merge.

Keywords

aesthetics
- assembled
- networked
- telematic

subjects
- Art and Science
  - scientific images
- Arts and Visual Culture
  - poetry
- Body and Psychology
  - embodiment
- Media and Communication
  - telecommunications
  - television
- Nature and Environment
  - outer space
technology
- hardware
  - scanners

Technology & Material

Material

satellite views and microscopic images of digital circuits

Method

Slow Scan Television

Method

Exhibitions & Events

ANIMAL NATURE

2005

Three-City Link transmission

1989

Bibliography

Kac, Eduardo. »Space Poetry.« http://www.ekac.org/spacepoetry.html.
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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