FLUXLIST: Phone Call Performances, Dung Beetles and the rest

2000-06-27 Thread Owen Smith
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

Re: FLUXLIST: Phone Call Performances, Dung Beetles and the rest

2000-06-27 Thread David Baptiste Chirot
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