Also, in the 1920's, El Lissitsky had the idea of creating works
by "phoning them in"--phoning in the instructions for their making to the
person or persons who would make the work according to the caller's
specifications.
--dbchirot
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Owen Smith wrote:
> The specifics aside, not to say that these concerns are not important,
> but another point has been missed and that is that the phone is an
> interesting medium for performances and interactive works. There was a
> show a few years ago in which anyone could call in and leave a message
> and then the visitors could listen to the messages on one of 20 or so
> message machines and all of the messages were printed out and hung on
> the walls as a kind of archive.
>
> Owen
>
