They participate in and model the essentials for an information and telecommunications environment that is both functional and inclusive.Ī Broader Context Enables a More Rich and Diverse Content At the current Electronic Cafe "International" Headquarters in Santa Monica, California, computer and other industry professionals, educators, students, world-class artists, children, and the general public get to be the architects of their own visions of a new world of telecollaborative possibilities.
The prerequisites for this are: 1) employing a multitude of disciplines, 2) using the performing arts as modes of investigating these new ways of being in the world and 3) creating a new context so that new forms and content can emerge.
For the last decade, ECI has been using technology to explore co-creation and collaboration in real-time networked environments. Even then the focus was broader than a simple community-based point of access to technology. The Electronic Cafe was maintained for seven weeks. Olympics Arts Festival by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. This was a concept of telecollaboration artists Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz who were commissioned as part of the L.A. Not Just Another Cyber Entertainment NetworkĮCI created the world's first cybercafe network in 1984. Another example: a performing artist in one city might transmit live video, MIDI data and audio signals to another city, where the artist's image is projected life-sized while the data signals control lights, theatrical props, musical instruments, robotics, or common household appliances. This enables us to model emerging telecom environments years before they are alleged to arrive in our homes. Analog telephone lines, digital ISDN lines, video and Internet networking capabilities are often used in concert to create a hybrid multimedia network not available from any one service provider. For example, ambient music is created by DJ's in several cities at once while audiences in different cities dance together in the same live composite image-space. Most ECI performances and activities incorporate the visions of several geographically disperse collaborators, and occur in more than one place at the same time: technology links performers who perform simultaneously in various locations around the world patrons around the world participate in interactive events. What does all this mean? The ECI Network organizes and produces live performances and encounters in a combination of real and virtual spaces.
For over a decade, ECI has functioned not only as a pioneer but as a leading multicultural community conducting ground-breaking aesthetic research in the exploration of realtime networked collaborative multimedia environments. ECI is, first and foremost, a networked cultural research lab: a unique international network of multimedia telecommunications venues with over 40 affiliates around the globe. Actually, ECI is the mother of all cybercafes. The Electronic Cafe International (TM) was founded in the Orwellian year of 1984. About the Electronic Cafe International(tm) Not Just Another Cybercafe The original 1984 Manifesto
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