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Artists' Use of Telecommunications
Timeline of Events | History 1968 - 1985

date event venues artists description
1968? Projects Outside Art: Children and Communication New York

E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology)
Robert Whitman

two primary schools in New York were linked via telephone, telex, electrowriter and fax
Sept.1970 Information Museum of Modern Art, New York Christine Kozlov
N.E.Thing Co.
Richard Sladden
conceptual works transmitted to gallery via telex or telegrams
Sept.1977 Two-Way Demo Centre for New Art Activities (CNAA),
New York &
Franklin St. Art Centre
San Francisco
Liza Bear, Willoughby Sharp, Keith Sonnier two-way satellite TV link up between artists and musicians
November 1977 Satellite Arts
(The Image as Place)
U.S. Esat and West coasts linked via NASA satellite. Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz the first use of audio-visual composite imaging for a performance based telecollaboration.
An emulation of immersive and virtual image space/place. Dancers in outdoor locations linked, over 4 days, in a performance space "with no geographical boundaries"
May 1978

Collaboratory

(project 1)

Open Space, VictoriaBC Canada and Centre for New Art Activities (CNAA),N.Y. Bill Bartlett, Liza Bear, et al. Slow Scan TV (SSTV) link, no audio
May 1978

Collaboratory

(project 2)

Open Space,VictoriaBC Canada & California College of Arts and Crafts (CCAC)
Oakland.
Bill Bartlett, Sharon Grace, et al. Slow Scan TV (SSTV) link, no audio
July 1978

Collaboratory
"Hands across the Border" (project 3)

Open Space, VictoriaBC Canada& Centre for New Art Activities (CNAA),N.Y.

Randall Lyon & Gus Nelson, Televista Projects, Memphis;
Sharon Grace, Video Free America, Berkeley Art Museum, U.C.;
Peggy Cady, Bill Bartlett, Chas Leckie. Open Space, Victoria;
Paul Wong, Sharon Levett & Daryl Lacey, Video Inn, Vancouver;
Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal & Willoughby Sharp, General Idea, Toronto;
Liza Bear & Robin Winters, CNAA, NY.; et al.

Slow Scan TV (SSTV) link, no audio
July 1978 Collaboratory
(project 6)
Open Space, VictoriaBC & Children's Art Carnival, Harlem NY  ? Slow Scan TV (SSTV) link, no audio
1979 SSTV event at Video 79, Milan Milan, Arnhem, Amsterdam Liza Bear et al. First European SSTV artists linkup
April 1979 Interplay, Computer Culture Expo, Toronto 22 centres inc.
Western Front, Vancouver
"Monday" pubs.Victoria
U.Alberta, Edmonton
MIT, Cambridge
KPFT, Houston
ANU, Canberra
ORF, Vienna
? online discussion of the future of interactive communications via I.P.Sharp realtime chat system
April-May
1979
Pacific Rim Slow-Scan Vancouver Art Gallery and USA, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji and Cook Islands   satellite link via slow-scan and the NASA ATS-1 Peacesat network
Feb.1980 Conf. on Artists Use of Telecommunications

San Francisco MOMA, IPSA Toronto,
Western Front,Vancouver
MOMA Vienna,
UHawaii, Honolulu,
CNAA New York,
CAVS MIT,
YorkU, Ontario, Tsukubau, Tokyo

Bill Bartlett, Sharon Grace, Carl Loeffler, David Ross, Art Kleiner, Hank Bull, Norman White, Aldo Tambellini, Robert Adrian, Heidi Grundmann, Michael Goldberg, Liza Bear, Sonia Dobrowolsky, John Southworth, Martin Nisenholtz, John Silverton SSTV and email conference
Feb.1980 Conf. on Artists Use of Telecommunications

San Francisco MOMA, IPSA Toronto,
Western Front,Vancouver
MOMA Vienna,
UHawaii, Honolulu,
CNAA New York,
CAVS MIT,
YorkU, Ontario, Tsukubau, Tokyo

Bill Bartlett, Sharon Grace, Carl Loeffler, David Ross, Art Kleiner, Hank Bull, Norman White, Aldo Tambellini, Robert Adrian, Heidi Grundmann, Michael Goldberg, Liza Bear, Sonia Dobrowolsky, John Southworth, Martin Nisenholtz, John Silverton SSTV and email conference
November 1980 Hole-In-Space
(A Public Communication Sculpture)
New York (Lincoln Centre ) and Los Angeles (Century City Department Store) Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz Live satellite links used over 3 days to create a new social space linking publics on the streets, interacting with the public in the other city via screens in shop windows.
Aug 1981 Telecommunications Performance via Facsimile Blitz Bar, Vienna

Mazzo's club, Amsterdam   

Tom Klinkowstein Robert Adrian et al. fax
1982 The World in 24 Hours

Vienna
Istanbul
Athens
Florence
Amsterdam
Frankfurt
Bath
Toronto
Pittsburgh
Wellfleet, Mass.USA
San Francisco
Vancouver
Honolulu
Tokyo
Sydney

Robert Adrian
Helmut Mark
Minus Delta T
Hartmut Geerken
Maurizio Nannucci
Annie Wright
David Garcia
Thomas Bayrle
Roy Ascott
Derek Dowden
Dieter Hastenteufel
Bruce Breland
Aldo Tambellini
Sarah Dickinson
Tom Klinkowstein
Hank Bull
Bill Bartlett
John Southworth
Katsue Kobata
Eric Gidney
Fax
SSTV
email conference
April 1983 Telephone Music

Galerie Aufbau-Abbau, Berlin 
Artpool, Budapest
Kulturservice Studio, Vienna BLIX

Pas Paravant
Halofern
Rainald Schumacher
Julia & Gyorgy Galantai
Miklos Erdely & Indigo group
Janos Veto & Laszlo Kiss, Trabant group
Sandor Czako, VHK group
Telephone
summer 1984 Electronic Cafe -'84 Los Angeles restaurants, L.A. Olympic Arts Festival, L.A. Museum of Contemporary Art Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz the first public multimedia, telecollaborative network using an interactive storage and retrieval pictoral data-base, as well as slow scan video and audio conferencing.




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