In Search of Global Perception: The aesthetics of communications
nexpress, Winter 1988, pp. 12-15
Derrick de Kerckhove discusses the impact of mass communication technologies such as television, radio and video on our individual and global psychology. de Kerckhove discusses the rapid changes in our understanding of private/public, instantaneous communication, technology as extensions of our senses and other pertinent questions surrounding new technologies in the 1980s. de Kerckhove also discusses the role of the artist during this time.
ITEM 1988.142 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
The artistic square yard – Fred Forest
Strategic Arts Initiative
Sherry Rabinowitz
Kit Galloway
Norman White
Doug Back
Graham Smith
Very Nervous System – David Rokeby
Body Language – David Rokeby
Transatlantic – David Rokeby
Very Vivid – Frank McDougall
Hotline – A-Line
Histoire sans paroles – Merinat Scher
Christiane Scher
Messages aux extra-terrestres – Jean-Marc Philippe
Light Ruby Fals – Joe Davis
hole in space
Transatlantic Armwrestling
Telepresence