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    Here/there : telepresence, touch, and art at the interface / Kris Paulsen.

    • Title:Here/there : telepresence, touch, and art at the interface / Kris Paulsen.
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    • Variant Title:Herethere
    • Author/Creator:Paulsen, Kris, author.
    • Published/Created:Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2017]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Art and telecommunication.
      Telepresence--Psychological aspects.
      Television--Psychological aspects.
      Remote control--Psychological aspects.
      Video art.
      Virtual reality.
    • Medical Subjects: Virtual Reality
    • Genre/Form:Video art.
    • Description:xiii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
    • Series:Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
    • Summary:"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"--The publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780262035729 hardcover ; alkaline paper
      0262035723 hardcover ; alkaline paper
    • Contents:Introduction: Touching the interface, interfacing touch
      The index and the interface
      Uncanny confusion : early video and the fantasy of presence
      Touching television : Chris Burden's anti-spectacular video and the ethics of observation
      Inhabiting the interface : the mixed reality of satellite telecommunication
      The presence of others : telerobotics and the digitization of touch
      The view from here : remote action and the trauma of (not) being touched
      Epilogue: Fingerprints.
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