Van Gogh TV
Van Gogh TV was a collaboration of artists and technicians from Austria and Germany, including Karel Dudesek, Benjamin Heidersberger, Gerard Couty and Mike Hentz, founded in 1986 at the Ponton European Media Art Lab. Some of the members had developed collaborative projects as early as 1979 in the group Minus Delta T. Based in Hamburg and Hannover, the group worked in interactive television, including the development of models of three-dimensional space and interaction for networks.
Piazza virtuale[edit]
Van Gogh TV's project Piazza virtuale was an interactive television project that could be received across Europe via 4 satellites for 100 days during documenta IX in Kassel in 1992. Visitors to documenta could beam themselves into the live broadcast, called Piazza Virtuale, via videophones and cameras installed in Kassel and other European cities. It was possible to dial into the broadcast from home by telephone, fax or modem. The aim of the project was to transform the mass medium of television into an interactive medium, reversing the relationship between one transmitter and many receivers.
Team Kassel: Ali Altschaffel (Photo Documentation) Nicolas Anatol Baginsky (Videorobotik) Katharina Baumann (System Operator Mailbox) Tim Becker (Graphic Design) Indulis Bilzens (Moderator) Julian Boyd (Music) Kathrin Brinkmann (3Sat) Wu Shaoxiang (News Café) Gérard Couty (Computer Art, Graphic Design) Fritz Groß (Text Editor TV, Coordinator PR Development) Daniel Haude (Hardware Development) Rüdiger Hirth (Computer Art) Jan Holthusen (Videobank) Kathy Rae Huffman (International Coordinator) Sarah Khan (Project Management Associate) Christiane Klappert (Project Management, PR Coordinator) Kaspar Luethi (Computer Graphics, Programming) Cory McLeod (Project Management Assistant) Kaspar Lüthi (Computer Graphics, Programming) Ole Lütjens (Computer Art, Programming) Silke Mauritius (Photo Documentation) Laurence Maury (Assistant International Coordination) Jendo Neversil (Computer Art, Graphic Design) Insa Riske (Project Management) Holger Rix (Surface Programming) Axel Roselius (Computer Art, Programming) Hinnerk Schmidt (Videorobotik) Karlheinz Schmidt (Programming) Dieter Sellin (Video Documentation) Ludwig Seyfarth (PR Coordinator, Text Editor) Sybille Steinfartz (Project Management) Manuel Tessloff (Music, Sound, Programming) Michael Ulrich (Hardware Development, System Manager) Wolfgang Werner (Programming) Heinz Widmer (Graphic Design) Laura Windrath (News Café) Sascha Windrath (Music, Sound Technique) Christian Wolff (Hardware Development, Programming Art) Katja Zapadlová (News Café) Andreas Zierdt (Programming Art)
Organizers Piazzettas: Belgrade – Petar Luković Berlin – Rudolf Stört Bremen – Ronald Gonko Earth – Andrew Work Frankfurt a. M. – Trust Corporate Culture Freiburg – Micky Remann Genf – Philippe Coeytaux Göttingen – Harald Weisser Graz – Gerfried Stocker Hamburg – Frauen und Technik Cologne – Bernd von den Brincken Lithuania – Valdis Martinsons Ljubljana – Marko Košnik Lyon – Rene Sanglard Macworld Berlin – Eric Gersh Milan – Giacomo Verde Moscow – Kirill Preobrazhenski Nagoya – Eiichi Kubota Paris – Christian Vanderborght Poitiers – Jean Louis le Tacon Prague – Michael Bielický Riga – Baiba Ripa Santarcangelo di Romagna – Giacomo Verde Stuttgart – Jan van Krogh Vienna – Rosa von Suess Zürich – Hans Wermelinger
Publications[edit]
- Tilman Baumgärtel, Julian Weinert, Van Gogh TV's Piazza Virtuale: The Invention of Social Media at documenta IX in 1992, Bielefeld: transcript, 2021, 231 pp. (English)
Links[edit]
- Van Gogh TV research project, 2018-2021. Exhibition (2021). Online companion.
- Ponton Lab
- VanGogh TeleVision history (archived), Chronology
- http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/ponton+vangoghtv/