Images taken from a book Open Systems:Rethinking Art c.1970 Artist: Lygia Clark Dialogue Goggles 1968 Colecao Famila Clark ______________________________________________________ The device featured in above image is a great example of how important our senses are in order to successfully communicate with one another, especially the eye contact. Unfortunately I don't have first hand experience of using this device, however I can just imagine how frustrating communication would be. One would probably spend some significant amount of time adjusting field of view to catch the other persons eyesight. Other person would be attempting to do the same hence confusing matters even more, there would have to be an open verbal dialogue between the two and synchronisation would have to occur for them to achieve successful communication. Ironically for them to successfully achieve full sensory communication they need to communicate first using impaired or limited amount of senses. Such behaviour occurs in video conferencing on line. Before two or more people begin the conference they often spend significant amount of time adjusting the web cam settings (especially manual focus devices), repositioning the camera and them selves, sometimes even the environment that they are in undergoes some changes to enable users to comfortably access and control the camera. 
In video conferencing what becomes apparent is that full sensory communication is not possible. This is caused by technological limitations of hardware used (by hardware I mean, computer, camera and Internet connection), and in many cases users limited knowledge of hardware and software used. Also many people that are not familiar with the conferencing technology are standoffish, sometimes embarrassed to use such devices for communication, which makes them appear nervous, insecure and 'not them selves', all of which adds up to, not a best form of communication. Arguably writing letters as it's been the case in the past to communicate over a long distance isn't the best form, It is slow, it takes long time to compile, post, and for it to be delivered. However one has plenty of time to rethink and adjust the words used hence making the piece that much more expressionate and personal. One thought comes to mind that for the letter to reflect persons feelings and or attitude and the like, writer might need to be fairly articulate and knowledgeable in the art of writing. And have the know how of reading and writing - a very complex media system to understand and be articulate in. while looking for images for the above text I came across this page on perseption and web cam: http://www.transparencynow.com/reform/webcams2.htm Interesting.
In video conferencing what becomes apparent is that full sensory communication is not possible. This is caused by technological limitations of hardware used (by hardware I mean, computer, camera and Internet connection), and in many cases users limited knowledge of hardware and software used. Also many people that are not familiar with the conferencing technology are standoffish, sometimes embarrassed to use such devices for communication, which makes them appear nervous, insecure and 'not them selves', all of which adds up to, not a best form of communication. Arguably writing letters as it's been the case in the past to communicate over a long distance isn't the best form, It is slow, it takes long time to compile, post, and for it to be delivered. However one has plenty of time to rethink and adjust the words used hence making the piece that much more expressionate and personal. One thought comes to mind that for the letter to reflect persons feelings and or attitude and the like, writer might need to be fairly articulate and knowledgeable in the art of writing. And have the know how of reading and writing - a very complex media system to understand and be articulate in. while looking for images for the above text I came across this page on perseption and web cam: http://www.transparencynow.com/reform/webcams2.htm Interesting.
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