Pacific Rim

Pacific Rim - Slow-Scan
a project by Bill Bartlett, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1979

"Pacific Rim" was a visual communication link established between members of the Peacesat users group in the Pacific using the ATS-1 NASA satellite and twenty hours of transmission time. There was audience participation at all locations, including Raratonga (Cook Island), Santa Cruz (California), Wellinton (New Zealand) and Vancouver (British Columbia).

Source:
Eric Gidney, The Artist's Use of Telecommunications: A Review, Leonardo, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 311-315
doi:10.2307/1574959

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