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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Plymouth
La Plissure du Texte
Telematic Art Project
Under the rubric “La Plissure du Texte: a planetary fairytale”(LPDT), this research into the “distributed authorship” of textual and visual narrative started in the 1980s, using the computer conferencing networks of Infomedia, San Bruno, and I.P.Sharpe, Toronto. Since then, the distributed authorship process has been tested, refined and demonstrated through a range of telecommunication modes, and exhibited internationally. Within the REF period, the research has explored the affordances of 3D virtual worlds scenarios , and online social networking services, with outcomes selected for
exhibitions in Asia, North America and Europe. The work demonstrates the process by which a nonlinear narrative can emerge from a networked agency, whose distributed nodes interact asynchronically, with each node constituted by an avatar, with its own subnet of participants. LPDT was first presented at Electra, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, 1983, and in Laboratorio Ubiqua, at the XLII Venice Biennale. The research into distributed authorship
continued through the following years, with outcomes exhibited internationally. In 2011, research began on developing LPDT in the 3D virtual world Second Life , with outcomes exhibited within the larger frame of the artist’s work, at the International Digital Art Festival in Incheon, South Korea 2010; at SPACE studios in Hackney, London, 2011; at the Kasa Gallery, Istanbul during ISEA 2011; as part of Roy Ascott: Syncretic Cybernetics, in the 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012; and in Roy Ascott: the Analogues at the Plug In Institute of
Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, July, 2013, Canada.
