Arthur wrote:
> I was a member of the Canadian Videotex Consultative Committee set
> up by the then Dept of Communications.
> [snip]
> BTW I am quite sure that Mike G. was a member of the sub-committee
> on the social implications of Telidon.
In 1984 I participated in a group show organized by Sarah Jackson
intended to address "Art and Technology" or buzzwords to that effect.
Most of the pieces in the show were photocopier art, mail art or other
experiments with graphics-emitting or -modifying technology.
My work was hand-forged iron embodying images emerging from advances
in science such as photomicrography and neurophysiology. [1]
The centerpiece (or intended centerpiece, perhaps) was a
Tele-something terminal. (Videotex? Telidon? Tele-something. I forget
just which phenotype.) The Art Types in attendance at the opening
paid little attention to it. No one present seemed able to answer my
eager questions so it came across to me as vaporware -- something that
will be Really Cool at some unspecified time in the Very Near Future.
It was another five years before I got access to the internet and, as
Arthur says, "Well along came the internet and pcs and google and here we
are."
- Mike
[1] My main piece in the show was this:
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/cort.html
The president of the hosting university approached me at the
opening and soon thereafter offered the commission for these:
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/gallery/tuns-gates.html
So I guess I benefited from Telidon, if only from having lurked
in the right places at the right time.
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
/V\
[email protected] /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^
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