Van Gogh TV

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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.

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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.

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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

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