text-networks chunks of information forming rhizomes HYPER-Media-Culture on-screen-thinking poetic of links? switching Web Cams

The early newtwork experiments (electronic café, Hole in Space) seem to equally follow both; the media and network utopias of the 70s, and the concept of the meta-design of an electronic environment by Mobile Image: a 24 hour live program that is connected back to daily life on the virtual market place of the global village through permanent feedback. The central perspective of the Zero-Media TV (with which Enzensberger later buried his dreams of revolutionizing the mass media) shifts to a network of disparate nodes. The dramatic structure of connected interfaces as a new paradigm of daily life, entertainment, conversation, production of knowledge or simply the extension of the old representative concept of the theatre, stage-show, peep-show, game-show? The pure consumption of a simulation - "the dissolving of television into life, the dissolving of life into television: You don't watch television any more, the television watches you (...) " (Baudrillard) - or entering a simulation room as an utopian scenario for a telematic network environment?