Telematics

Telematics is the science of sending, receiving and storing information via telecommunication devices.

Wikipedia describes Telematic ART as "a descriptive of art projects using computer mediated telecommunications networks as their medium. Telematic art challenges the traditional relationship between active viewing subjects and passive art objects by creating interactive, behavioural contexts for remote aesthetic encounters. Telematics was first coined by Simon Nora and Alain Minc in The Computerization of Society. Roy Ascott sees the telematic art form as the transformation of the viewer into an active participator of creating the artwork which remains in process throughout its duration."

• Here is an article about "Lubricious Transfer," a telematic work between UCSC & NYU.

  Jess Damsen participated throughout the entire project in numerous roles; developing web tools for coreographers and dancers who lived across the continent from one another, learning V-Brink transmission technologies and generating digital tutorials for further use, developing and presenting and multimedia live performance during the event and more...

Cutting-Edge Dance & Theater Collaboration

• Here is an archival web site is still accessible about the early UCSC telematic research group that Jess was working with (not maintained):

Formed by Ted Warburton in the Fall of 2004 at the University of Santa Cruz, Dance Theater Telematica was a research group dedicated to exploring the intersection of performing arts, interactive digital media and telecommunications technology. Like many postmodern artists, the artist-researchers employed digital software tools and vehicles to create the visual, aural and connective material for theatrical works. They went a step further by making digital technologies and remote collaborations essential components in live performances that fuse dance, theater, media, and network designs. This work was done to explore the potential of new media technologies to enliven electronic media – to create the body electric – through the intersection of embodied, humanizing chaos on our ordered, technological society. http://telematica.ucsc.edu

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