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Abstract
"Hole in Space" by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz was a telecommunicative installation. In November 1980, a video connection was set up between the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts in New York City and a shop window in the open-air shopping centre in Century City, Los Angeles using permanent live satellite transmission. Passers-by in the one place were recorded by a video camera and these images then transmitted to the shop window in the other city and vice versa.
Unlike closed circuit installations therefore, this did not involve the observer being confronted with his own moving image, but rather consisted of large whole-body projections of passers-by from another far-away city. This brought about some surprise meetings and eventually led to arranged meetings between people living in these two cities on opposite sides of the USA who took this opportunity to see each other and communicate using gestures. "Hole in Space" was therefore a public communication installation.
Artists / Authors
- Kit Galloway
- Sherrie Rabinowitz
Cooperators
- Charlie Brouyette , Technical Director
- Mark Schubin , Technical Director NY
- Karl Hartig , Associate Producer
Origination
United States, 1980
Partners / Sponsors
Grants: National Endowment for the Arts, The Broadway Department Store; support: Avery Fisher Hall; Western Union, General Electric and Wold Communications et al.
Submission
, Sep 21, 2001
Category
- artistic production
Keywords
- Topics:
- communication |
- public space |
- telepresence
- Formats:
- teleconference |
- multi user |
- video