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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 protocol for the
interview with Ponton European Media Art Lab (cutout)
Online Interview via Mailbox: 8
simultanous participants | Screenshot 1993
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The idea for this first independent series
of interviews emerged from previous engagement with oral
history. The attempt to transfer this method to the present and
thus to generate an up-to-date image of our day and age almost
inevitably led to the world of media art. The notion of sitting
opposite a person who devoted him/herself to research about
binary media and using a tape recorder seemed
disproportionately "old-fashioned". In conversations
with Horst Hörtner and Max Kossatz the idea of using an
"online" interview format was confirmed, and the
series of interviews increasingly became an experiment of form.
The written real time dialogues were recorded on hard disk as
they took place. The questions that arose were about whether it
was possible to interview people via a screen, whether
electronic interviews wer different from oral ones, and how the
absence of facial expressions, gestures, tone of voice and
physical presence would change the interview.
Three classic "analogue" oral
interviews corresponded with nine digital, written interviews
(six of them direct from one computer to the other, three via
mail chatbox). In the course of the series of interviews
various locations were used. Some electronic interviews were
imitations of the online situation because telecommunications
were not immediately available to all participants.
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INTERVIEWS
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PUBLICATIONS
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