A manifesto for global art [email_address] Katowice 21 November 2008

Not on Wikipedia Not communication art Not space art Not planetary art Not network art Not satellite art But related to all the above

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

La Terre vue du ciel

La plissure du texte (1983)

Joe Davis Red Ruby Falls (project 1984)

Fred Forest

Le centre du monde (Fred Forest 1999)

La conscience des limites Gaia, 1992 Galileo, 1993

Sensorium The Japanese concepts of "I (myself)" and "human being" reflect the essential and ambivalent "network-like" nature of our being. The Japanese "I" ("jibun") implies the existence only within a relational context, one that comprises both the relational aspects within myself and the holonic and relational structure of the universe.

Stelarc Ping Body

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Alzado Vectorial Mexico City 1999-2000

Lorella Abenavoli Le Souffle de la Terre (1996-2002) Nox Mater with Nicolas Reeves 2007

Emotional Traffic 2005

TRANSINTERACTIVITY

Example Sites – Initial Installation Examples: BCE Place or Eaton Center, Toronto

Galleria Vittorio Emannuelle II in Milan

Eaton Center - Toronto Eaton Gallery Toronto People will approach a large screen onto which a live, life-size, remote image is projected.

Eaton Center - Toronto People in one place will see and hear the distant persons as if they were physically present.

Eaton Center - Toronto The distant surroundings will appear to be a natural continuation of the local space

Eaton Center - Toronto

Feeding global emotions

In the electric age, we wear all mankind as our skin