Three-hour interactive telethon co-sponsored by the Everson Museum and WCNY-PBS.<\/p>\n
“In earlier works, like Davis’ “Talk Out” in 1973–a live, phone-in, broadcast television performance work–in which viewers participated in the creation of a collaborative text by phoning into the artist who, live, and on camera, literally typed their responses to his text onto the screen in a continuous, superimposed text roll.” (Transcription of Lecture by David Ross)<\/p>\n
“We went on at 11 P.M. and didn’t stop until 2:30 A.M. It was the first art telethon. Calls from everywhere . . . all over the country . . Some of the New York City callers seeing the same tapes we were playing on Sterling Manhattan Cable, public access channel. . . phones backed up all the time . . . getting some calls and statements printed out on character generator, the words floating across the bottom of the screen . . . radio stations plugging in, passing out the number to their listeners . . . very complex and dense layering of communication, live from start to finish.”<\/p>\n
“It was an authentic dialogue . . . the callers, every one, bright and alert and on the point . . . the audience is better than the people who pretend it is stupid . . . diverse inputs . . . mind to city . . . better than Socratic dialogue . . . most of all immediate . . . at the end I played my last tape, Studies in Color Videotape II<\/em>, very quiet and minimal in image, and we watched the responses come in, printed over the image, the last message coming from two kids, as Talk-Out! ended, saying: WE LIKE YOUR SHOW \u2014 WE ARE ELEVEN. Scott Byrid and Sam Jacopole.” (Douglas Davis, in: Radical Software)<\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n [1] http:\/\/www.afsnitp.dk\/udefra\/1\/dd\/home.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [2] http:\/\/www.radicalsoftware.org\/volume2nr4\/pdf\/VOLUME2NR4_0053.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n