Telematic art

Telematic art is a descriptive of art projects using computer-mediated telecommunications 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.^[1] Telematics was first coined by Simon Nora and Alain Minc in The Computerization of Society.^[2] Roy Ascott sees the telematic art form as the transformation of the viewer into an active participator of creating the artwork which remains in process throughout its duration. Ascott has been at the forefront of the theory and practice of telematic art since 1978 when he went online for the first time, organizing different collaborative online projects.

^ Ascott, Roy (2003). Shanken, Edward A. (ed.). Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21803-1.
^ Nora, Simon; Minc, Alain (1980). The Computerization of Society. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 4–5.

[1] Ascott, Roy (2003). Shanken, Edward A. (ed.). Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-21803-1.

[2] Nora, Simon; Minc, Alain (1980). The Computerization of Society. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 4–5.

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