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The premise of Telematics is old-school and low-fi, yet telematic projects typically utilize the newest network technologies.
A Rough Outline of Telematics in Time:
Late 1970s - Experimentations with telecommunications
1977 – Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz's "Satellite Arts Project" – first notion of virtual space – a video space in-between physical spaces
1979 – the company I.P. Sharp Associates supplied free computer time for “Interplay,” a radio program with viewer participation and input by computer – viewers’ messages from 12 cities in 5 countries were printed out and read – radio as a telematic network
1978 – 1980 – Bill Bartlett and Liza Bear create a series of slow-scan tv projects – interactive dialogue
1980 – Roy Ascott – mailed portable Texas Instruments printer terminals with built-in acoustic modems to artists as part of the ArtAccess Conference
“Hole in Space,” produced by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowicz – linked shopping centres in New York and Los Angeles were anonymously linked by satellite video of groups of shoppers from other locations
1981 - the first FAX project by artists in Europe
1982 – “Die Welt in 24 Stunden” – communications used in a global network of artists incorporating SSTV, FAX, computer conference or telephone.
1983 – Roy Ascott's ARTEX project LA PLISSURE DU TEXTE for the ELECTRA'83 exhibition in Paris – an experiment in collective authorship. Participants in 11 cities around the world were assigned roles in a global fairy tale.
“Telephone Music” – use of the telephone with amplifiers to play music between ideologically distant locations, like East and West Berlin
The formation of ARTEX - the Artists' Electronic Exchange program- a "user-group" of 30 members on the IPSA network, formed for the organization of global projects and as a medium for art projects as well as for personal contact. It existed until about 1990.
1985 – Normal White's “Heresay” at Toronto’s A-Space Gallery – a one day international collaborative art project using network technology; a message originating from Toronto was sent around the world in 24 hours, roughly following the sun, via a global computer network (I. P. Sharp Associates). In each of the participating eight cities the message was received in one language, translated and sent in another until the final message was sent back to its place of origin.
Timeline comiled from:
Art
and Telecommunication,1979-1986:The Pioneer Years, Robert
Adrian
Signal
Walker Art Center on-line
Heidi
Grundman's essay, published in Telepolis