Send/Receive

Two-Way-Demo: Send/Receive
By Liza Bear, Willoughby Sharp

On September 10 and 11, 1977, the first two-way live broadcast between New York and San Francisco take place. Put into position in 1976, the NASA Satellite CTS is used for the occasion. The New York-based station, MCTV, receives a cable signal by satellite.

Throughout the two-and-a-half hour-long broadcast, the two-way telecommunication is the central theme: texts are read, video material recorded and discussed. The broadcast reaches almost 25,000 spectators.
Source: Ann-Kathrin Schlote, Pioniere der Telekommunikationskunst, unpublished Master of Arts dissertation, University of Heidelberg, 1998, p. 77.
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"Other participating artists included Andy Horowitz on the West Coast. The broadcast consisted of discussion and debate, readings, and prerecorded video footage." Source: Inke Arns, http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/communication/10/

In 1977, with Avalanche magazine in New York, La Mamelle coordinated the Send/Receive Project - an early two-way satellite transmission between New York and San Francisco, with simultaneous broadcast on New York and San Francisco cable TV channels.

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