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“Telematic Dreaming” [1995]

Paul SERMON

Outline

ICC Gallery and Spiral Hall were connected by ISDN and images of these two separate exhibition halls were exchanged using a teleconferencing system. The visitor could see their own image juxtaposed with that of someone from the other hall on a monitor. By communicating with the other person through gestures, the visitor experienced the complicated psychological condition of existing outside of real time and space. In other words, the visitor became aware not of the movements or existence of his own body, but rather, of a body that was interacting in a remote telematic space. The work’s use of a “bed” and “sofa”—objects replete with meaning—effectively enhanced this reversal in the visitor’s perceptions, thereby eliciting a real sensation. A performance by Paul SERMON and Andrea ZAPP was held from November 3rd to 5th.

Excerpted from “ICC Concept Book,” NTT Publishing, 1997

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