Reconsidering Early Telepresence

Panel, Screening & Discussion

REVISITING CEAIT: MUSIC & EARLY TELEPRESENCE

ORGANIZED BY ANASTASIA CHERNYSHEVA, DOCTORAL CANDIDATE, UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, VISITING RESEARCHER, UCLA ART/SCI

In the 1990s, the CalArts School of Music was at the forefront of developing new interactive music technology, multimedia performance, and telecommunication art. In 2024, as major institutions in California recognize the importance of cross-disciplinary collaboration by participating in PST “Art & Science Collide”, we want to bring to light the contribution of the CalArts-based Center for the Art, Information, and Technology (CEAIT), in collaboration with Electronic Café International (ECI), in the lineage of art and technology nexus. In a conversation, the former CEAIT affiliates and collaborators – Becky Allen, Hunter Ochs, Kit Galloway, and Tom Erbe, will share their recollections of the music technology inventions and hybrid practices they witnessed and/or developed over the 1990s. In light of the sudden proliferation of audio+video telecommunication applications and the spread of remote live collaboration, for ex. over Zoom, the panelists, (early adopters), will discuss the creative telecollaboration 30 years ago compared to the heyday practices.

Sponsored in part from an Art of Recovery Grant, Cultural Affairs Division, City of Santa Monica. More info: https://rhizome.org/community/53197/