Internet Art & Culture

This public communication art “Hole in space” was created in 1980 using satellite connection through a life-size video screen. The location was placed on in New York City and Los Angeles. This unexpected piece attracted large amount of people to interact with strangers also incidentally become a meeting place for people who hadn’t seen their loved ones in years.

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Sculpting and expressing our identities through another medium has been a human-specific phenomenon since the beginning of history. From cave paintings to portraits, and writing letters to auto-biography, we have been using a medium to imprint our subjectivity for others to see. Galloway and Rabinowitz’s “public communication sculpture” work Hole in Space was one of the first works that explored human Read more →

If I imagined that I am living in 1980 where the best computer I could ever purchase(if I am even rich enough) are only running on MS-DOS operating system, a period which the first computer that runs graphical user interface only appeared 3 years later(Apple Lisa), and I heard that I could talk to someone else 4800km Read more →

Hole in Space:

Hole in Space is a telematic artwork where a two-way satellite linked Lincoln Center in New York and Century City in Los Angeles through two large screens where life sized images are displayed. There was no public announcement but every day the number of people interacting increases where it lasted for 3 days. Hole in Space brings people Read more →

A Hole in Space (1980) by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz consists of two large projection screens, one at the Century City in Los Angeles and the other at the Lincoln Center in New York City, both screening real-time footage of people from the other city. As such technology was rather advanced at the time, most people were foreign to Read more →

Viewing Hole in Space is quite fascinating. The first thing that struck me were the masses forming at the point of contact; a sort of sign that shows how people are drawn to be in contact with other people. They are especially drawn to the fact that, ordinarily, they would not be able to be in such direct contact with Read more →

“Hole in Space” (1980) by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz resembles what we call the video chat now when implemented at that time. It went for 3 days at the walkways of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York City), and the broadway department store located in the open air Shopping Center in Century City (Los Angeles). It was a Read more →

Hole in Space (1980) is a quintessential piece that highlights the possibility of a performance platform that has no geographic boundaries happening in real time.  I find the title of video, ‘mother of all video chats’  a very apt name indeed, given that it was the very first large screen teleconferencing in history.

Through its medium in telecommunication, it involves the audience Read more →

“Welcome to Electronic Cafe International” was a fascinating piece of reading, documenting the work of Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz and their seminal work, Hole-in-Space from 1980. It discussed greatly on the effects of the artwork on the people that had interacted with it and how their behavior changed after the event.

I found the artwork by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz an inspiration to Read more →

Welcome to Electronic Café International is a remarkable read as it truly shows communicating through the “third space” lets people feel the core of this project, warmth and closeness. Hole in Space by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowit has created a portal of spontaneously and was able to capture the essence of using the electronics for interaction bringing people from Read more →