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Ursula Hentschlaeger
The Artist as a Communicator.
Series of Online Interviews.
1992 - 1993
Looking a new technologies in the context
of art was one goal of this work. Twelve interviews were done,
prefer-ably using computer net-works. The connection was
established over the phone, interviewees went
"online" that way.
The series was created in cooperation with
Rosa von Suess and Max Kossatz. The interviews were carried out
in the framework of unitn with the help of a 14400 baud modem
and appropriate terminal software.
A note of thanks also goes to
Eva Grubinger, Kurt Hent-schlaeger und
Horst Hörtner.
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BACKGROUND
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EXPERIMENT
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Ill. Transmission errors at the beginning
of the "interview" with LITERATUR UND MEDIEN
Online Interview via Mailbox, Screenshot
1992
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When the questions were worded, the point
was not so much to deal with the "artistic work" of
the individual interviewees but to identify their attitude
about and around new technologies by means of specific
generality. The selection from an environment was made
subjectively and did not seek to be exhaustive. By and large,
three generations from the field of media art were interviewed.
The scope of possibilities for artistic
applications for new technologies was almost as broad as the
wide range of newly developed media. "which type artist do
you mean? is it a video, telecommunications, interactive,
installation, video-sculpture, audio-visual, media, television,
telematic, performance, biogenetic, virtual artist? an
electronic cinema director, meta-designer,
artist-cum-philosopher, zoosystemist...?” (HILUS). The
range of assessment criteria was almost as broad as the scope
of artistic approaches, and the fields of philosophy,
technology and art were hard to distinguish from one another.
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INTERVIEWS
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PUBLICATIONS
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