The Inter-Play workshop with media artist Lucy H G (Doctor L Hernandez Gomez of the League of Imaginary Scientists) incorporates interactive video, drawing, animation, and installation through interactive play and data exchange. Remote Tea, the culmination of the workshop, is a collaboration between Lucy H G and CalArts graduate students. The project cocept was presented at CalArts and at TAFE Gallery in Newcastle, Australia with Sydney-based artists, Melissa Ramos, Rhys Turner, Francesca Veronesi, and Jasper Streit as part of Electrofringe 2006.

Excerpts from Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?
- Roy Ascott

“… In a telematic art, meaning is not created by the artist, distributed through the network, and received by the observer. Meaning is the product of interaction between the observer and the system, the content of which is in a state of flux, of endless change and transformation…”

“The emerging new order of art is that of interactivity, of "dispersed authorship...” The canon is one of contingency and uncertainty. …”

“… networking provides the very infrastructure for spiritual interchange that could lead to the harmonisation and creative development of the whole planet. With this prospectus however naively optimistic and transcendental it may appear in our current fin-de-siecle gloom, the metaphor of love in the telematic embrace may not be entirely misplaced."

Telematic = hybrid – onsite/online/offsite
Tool: technology and the internet

Elements of and themes inherent in Telematics:

Global communications
Interaction
Responsive environments
Connectivity and connection
Impermanence – exists at the moment of connection
Being at a distance
Flow as process
Collective authorship
Passive vs. active viewers