(Presumed Portrait -- Foul Face)

 Eduardo Kac and Mario Ramiro, 1988

 Telecommunications event between Rio de Janeiro and SãoPaulo uniting fax and live TV, 1988. Connecting the public medium of televisionwith the private medium of the fax this work created a system of feedbackbased on the continuous exchange and transformation of images. Ramiro wasin São Paulo in the studios of TV Cultura and was connected to Kacby means of a fax in his studio in Rio de Janeiro. The basis of this linkwas a real time operation utilizing the fax as a dialogic medium in thecontext of a television broadcast, a unidirectional system of mass communication.The goal was not to create pictures remotely but to explore the interactive,improvisational quality of both personal and public telecommunicationsmedia simultaneously, integrating the apparently antagonist media intoa single process.

 The images below were extracted from the live broadcast realizedin 1988.

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