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An examination of telepresence technologies through the lens of
contemporary artistic experiments, from early video art through
current "drone vision" works. "Telepresence" allows us to feel
present-through vision, hearing, and even touch-at a remote
location by means of real-time communication technology. Networked
devices such as video cameras and telerobots extend our corporeal
agency into distant spaces. In Here/There, Kris Paulsen examines
telepresence technologies through the lens of contemporary artistic
experiments, from early video art through current "drone vision"
works. Paulsen traces an arc of increasing interactivity, as video
screens became spaces for communication and physical, tactile
intervention. She explores the work of artists who took up these
technological tools and questioned the aesthetic, social, and
ethical stakes of media that allow us to manipulate and affect
far-off environments and other people-to touch, metaphorically and
literally, those who cannot touch us back. Paulsen examines 1970s
video artworks by Vito Acconci and Joan Jonas, live satellite
performance projects by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz, and
CCTV installations by Chris Burden. These early works, she argues,
can help us make sense of the expansion of our senses by
technologies that privilege real time over real space and model
strategies for engagement and interaction with mediated others.
They establish a political, aesthetic, and technological history
for later works using cable TV infrastructures and the World Wide
Web, including telerobotic works by Ken Goldberg and Wafaa Bilal
and artworks about military drones by Trevor Paglen, Omar Fast,
Hito Steyerl, and others. These works become a meeting place for
here and there.
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