About Telematic Art

Telematic art is a descriptive of art projects using computer mediated telecommunication networks as their medium. Telematic art challenges the traditional relationship between active viewing subjects and passive art objects by creating interactive, behavioural contexts for remote aesthetic encounters.

Ascott, Roy.(2003).Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness.

Today Telematic art is a label used to refer to interactive art using the internet and other digital means of communication, such as video conferencing platforms, social medias and mobile devices to connect remotely artists and audiences in the creation of a live art work.

The development of internet and telematic technologies has opened a new digital space connecting all of us. This workshop wants to explore ways in which this can become a space for new artistic creations. We need to develop new forms of narrative, combining different art languages: visual design, film, broadcasting, performing art, interactive media, web art, social media, etc.

Marshall McLuhan’s statement "The medium is the message" enjoys a quite high status among media practitioners and artists. But what is the medium without the message? Is it just an empty box? The message itself can become a medium carrying meaning and knowledge?

Focusing on the ways people use the media to connect, live and especially create art, the workshop aims to explore the potential of telematics and how the creation of a shared real-time digital space - that is both physical and virtual - can be used as a new platform (stage, gallery, etc.) for con temporary narratives.