Van Gogh TV's »Piazza Virtuale«

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Media Studies | Volume 96Tilman Baumgärtel (Dr.) is a writer and teaches media studies at Hochschule Mainz. Previously he was a professor at the University of the Philippines in Manila (2005Manila ( -2009 and at the Department of Media and Communication at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (2009Penh ( -2012. He has published on media culture, including internet art, computer games, the aesthetics of loops, GIF animation and the director Harun Farocki. Julian Weinert (M.A.) studied Media Studies, German Literature and Media design at University of Trier and Hochschule Mainz. He is a film maker and was a staff member of the research project on Van Gogh TV at the Institut für Mediengestaltung (IMG) of Hochschule Mainz from 2018 to 2021. Tilman Baumgärtel with Julian Weinert Van Gogh TV's "Piazza Virtuale"The Invention of Social Media at documenta IX in 1992This publication and the research project "Van Gogh TV. Critical Edition, Multimedia-documentation and analysis of their Estate" (Project 388224396) were funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche NationalbibliothekThe Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http:// dnb.d-nb.de This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (BY-NC-SA) license, which means that the text may be shared and redistributed, provided credit is given to the author for non-commercial purposes only. Permission to use the text for commercial purposes can be obtained by contacting rights@ transcript-publishing.com Creative Commons license terms for re-use do not apply to any content (such as graphs, figures, photos, excerpts, etc.) not original to the Open Access publication and further permission may be required from the rights holder. The obligation to research and clear permission lies solely with the party re-using the material.

Video Conferencing

“…The Slow Scan technology that Bartlett used around 1980 was only able to send individual, sequential pictures over copper telephone lines. When ISDN became available, it became possible to actually "stream" moving images around the globe without access to expensive telecommunication satellites, for example during the art project Piazza Virtuale by the German media art group Van Gogh TV at documenta 9 in 1992 (Baumgärtel 2021), which simultaneously used a version of SSTV to connect with studios in countries where ISDN television was not available (Van Gogh TV 2021). Hence, the use of the low-resolution, static transmission of black-and-white images via the Robot encoder and copper telephone cables was a step toward a television that was run and transmitted by artists.…”

Perceptions of the use of IsiZulu Termbank Technology at University of KwaZulu-Natal.

“…At first, the web language technology used mostly behaviouristic activities because of the limited capabilities of the web, as web 2.0 emerged, sound and video quality got better, leading to increased engagement. It has also been proposed by Baumgärtel (2021) to make changes to Flickinger et al (2021) phases in order to better reflect attitudes in the early years of language technology with respect to integrating technology into the classroom.…”