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Eduardo Kac >
»Spacescapes«, 1989
Co-Workers & Funding:
Dana Moser, Carlos Fadon and the DAX GroupSee Also: "Three City Link" (1989)
https://www.ekac.org/spacescapes.html
Technology
Material
satellite views and microscopic images of digital circuitsMethod
Slow Scan TelevisionMethod
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.
Descriptions & Essays
Eduardo Kac 25-05-2022
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.
Eduardo Kac: Spacescapes, 25-05-2022, in: Archive of Digital Art 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.
Literature
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, edited by SPIE 2043, . Bellingham, WA: Holographic Imaging and Materials (Proc. SPIE 2043), Tung H. Jeong, Editor (Bellingham, WA: SPIE,, 1993.
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