[Image from video documentation shot by Simon Cohen]

From the original Multimedia Workshop 1, MEDA110 (circa 1993).

Telematic Performance:

“Working in groups select an image (A4). Devise a system for transferring the image from one location to another. Each person will mark a stage in the transfer which will require the image to be coded and decoded. Each stage will be different from any other stage in the process. The process should last approximately 5 minutes. Look at: FAX machines/Modems/T.V./Film & slide projectors. You can’t use any of these. (A slide projector may be used as a light source but not for projecting slides). Semaphore/Morse code/shadows/grids. You might want to use some of these.

Think about: Your audience, presentation, genre, style, timing…..”

[Originally performed by members of E.A.T. at the de Haagse Zomer Plein, June 1989 and transposed to the MediaLab Arts Programme MEDA110 and Strategies for Digital Art & Technology. Here recreated at the XXX event in the Devonport Market Hall, Saturday, 18 Nov 2023 18:00 – 23:00 GMT.]