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BlueCloud – Live Transmission

Author
Dirk Paesmans (JODI)
Publisher / Label
Atomic Activity Books
Country
Australia
Language
English
Publication year
2014
Type of publication
artist's book
Number of pages
160
ISBN
978-8890307850

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donated by Karen Ann Donnachie and Andy Simionato


On the 25th of May 1991 the Bluecloud computer bulletin board system (BBS) transmitted a live broadcast to a local TV station in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The broadcast was a live video feed of the sky over the town. For the duration of the event, viewers could observe the clouds above along with some meteorological data transmitted to their television screens.The event may represent one of the earliest artworks that explicitly and critically combine the two networks of internet and television. This book consists of 160 pages of sequential screen captures taken from the recording of this transmission, augmented with the addition of a special blue ink, it is Jodi’s first artist book.