Web Cams theatricalizing textual surfaces Text, collective switching readable/writable/feedable public exchance multimedia-madness? MOOs misappropriating machines of desire internet - embedded interfaces? Internet Battlefield interfacing hotspots forming rhizomes feeding
The physical presence of participants in the Piazza will be the exception. Most participants will appear in the Piazza via the freeway of teleportation, the telephone system. (...) The keyboard (of the telephone or of a terminal) serves as a typewriter for a wild-growing hypertext biotope, or as the keyboard of an interactive orchestra, as the mission control of video games and drawing programs. (...) The goal of the data traveller is a virtually open medium in an imaginary market place, where things happen like on a holiday: People spend time drinking coffee, talking, reading, acting without having to leave the chair and the chips.
(PONTON TV: (interactiv tv) Piazza Virtuale, DOKUMENTA IX, Kassel (Germany), 1991)