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Realtime Interaction is in some sense an oxymoron: realtime, as
in now and live, implies technological mediation, while the word
interaction requires contact and connection. These seemingly contradictory
notions of technological distance and personal exchange become married
in interactive media art. At the core of interactive art is this
strange union of the disconnected and personal, the interconnected
and distant.
In the fall, as an artist at residence at CalArts, I directed an
interactive media workshop entitled, InterPlay. The objective of
the workshop was to explore possibilities for meaningful interaction
through telematic exchange, the results of which would be presented
simultaneously at Australia’s Electrofringe festival and at
CalArts as an interactive piece between viewers in Los Angeles and
Newcastle, Australia. Students unanimously wanted to offer something
physical to the viewers on the other side of the world. Remote Tea,
the resulting project, is a prototype for realtime exchange - a
marriage of the disconnected and personal, the interconnected and
distant.
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