On the 20th and 21st of April 1983 Eric Gidney and visiting American artist Tom Klinkowstein produced a telecommunications event involving nearly 100 art students in five locations across Australia…
The following model represents a prescriptive mode, an act of analysis based n an open process of perceptual cognition. The process of perceptual cognition establishes meaning through the inquiry of language. A concept can be translated into an object (sign) that in turn refers back to the concept. stated more simply, recognition ( perceptual cognition ) is a process of inquiry. This clarification is a fundamental relationship, a verification. between ‘fiction’ and ‘fact’.
Fact: The state of things as they area in the perceptual complexity of structure and function. (cognitive)
Fiction: Any language system designed to represent of describe fact and subject in principle to verification.(Connotative as distinguished from affective).
Function: A reflexive correspondence, a mapping of language and in this model meaning.
Media-space with Donald Brook discussing the Media-Space model.
Documentation from Stelarc performing “Amplified Hands” at the City Art Institute, October 15, 1982.
For the Ars Electronica Festival: A project connecting artists around the world via computer and telefax link.
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The world in 24 Hours catalogue
Robert Adrian X Artist’s Use of Telecommunications, Ars Electronica archive
The report of this committee was submitted to the Australia Council in April 1984.
The report analyses the effect on the arts of developments in technology.
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Media -Space
Script for the first audio work produced by Paul Thomas and Allan Vizents 1981.
Flyer for the showing of Eric Gidney’s Telesky work @ Sky Art Confrence ’81
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Audio recording of Media Space meeting on the 8th May 1981 with Anne Graham, Judy Chambers, Brian Mckay, Julian Goddard, Jeff Jones, Paul Thomas, Alan Vizents.
Pioneer of media art in Australia Warren Burt work
ed in academia (La Trobe University, NSW Conservatorium, Victorian College of the Arts, Australian National University), education, and radio (freelance and commissioned productions for ABC and PBAA), and as a composer, film maker, video artist, and community arts organizer.