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"Most of these "works" were either routine applications - of satellites for teleconference purposes, or the equally routine use of computer, video text and facsimile networks for the "exchange of works, information and ideas" - or they were about media events offering the TV viewers hooked up to cable or an audience gathered in a museum auditorium performances by "star artists" centred on their own person. (...) Actually, nothing comes to light which didn't already exist, was obvious or routine - which wasn't already commercially publicized."
Youngblood, Gene: Der virtuelle Raum. Die elektronischen Umfelder von Mobile Image, in: Ars Electronica. Festival für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Linz 1986, p. 290)