Robert Whitman created some of the earliest and most important performance works of the 1960s. In his performances, the poetic and often surprising interaction of film, lights, sound, live performers, props, and objects that take on a life of their own create a dense visual, non-narrative dramatic structure.

we can find that his works with static background  and active human beings ;as far as I am concerned ,

Robert Whitman  tried  to build a bridge between real and virtual world . For human ,

it used to be impossible for us to board the moon  (virtual world); with the development of technology , we succeed (real world) . However , is  it the happy ending of our  society?

        According to the articles:Galloway, K. & Rabinowitz, S.  Welcome to Electronic Café International,(1992)

there are 5 cafes in various communities to link each other ,

traced back to  the meaning of this work ,

it’s concerned about  groundbreaking satellite  of 1975 to explore  a variety of unscripted forms of  communication .

For  them , place is  virtual   but  people are real ; virtual media can lessen the

fear of contacting  , and it is essential for them to have some  tension when

communicating.

 

I  think the tension indeed existing in  Robert ‘s work  , which appears at the end of the video –two guys  continuously laying  and jumping  ,and  the emergence of aim  indicates the integration of human  and media .

Finally , the shoot  of the man  stuck in the bubble  means that man has been gradually  the slave of technology , and that’ s  the  meaning  beyond the work.