1968

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I recall visiting Stewart Brand in Menlo Park, California, in 1968 while he was working on the original Whole Earth Catalog. His wife at the time, Lois, a Native American mathematician, spent an entire day working on the catalog with a layout person while Stewart and I sat together reading and underlining a copy of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics. I still have that copy.

Jean-Luc Godard élabore au Québec le projet d'une émission intitulée «Communications» pour la télévision Radio-Nord. Plusieurs numéros, tournés en vidéo, sont destinés à être transférés sur un support film pour leur diffusion télévisée. La qualité du résultat étant insuffisante, le projet échoue.

Jean-Luc Godard et Chris Marker à bandes 1/2 pouce pour réaliser des documentaires sommaires.

Walter de Maria has an operational telephone placed on the floor of the exhibition room in "Art by Telephone" in 1968 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago).

Exposition "Cybernetic Serendipity" à l'Institute of Contemporary Art, London.

Les Levine: first closed-circuit video installation.

December 9: "The Mother of All Demos" - Douglas Engelbart demonstrates the oNLine System during the Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC) at the Convention Center in San Francisco.

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