Roy Ascott's "Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?"

In "Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?" Roy Ascott describes how in the world of technology and telecommunication, pure art became different than the telematic art, as he called it, in terms of form, content, concept, and behavior. With the electronic media including video, sound, and cybernetic systems, people’s behaviors changed according to this change in the telematic culture and because of the over explosion of information and data which gave the human another way to explore and to use his/her imagination and creativity. The only difference that Ascott emphasizes is the role of the content in sending and receiving the content. He states that in the world of pure art or classical communication, the maker creates the content and the meaning that s/he wants the viewer to receive, whereas in the telematic art world the creator or I shouldn’t say creator because there is no single creator, but creators who are the observers and the system that make the content and the meaning. And that makes the data of the content indeterminate, changeable, irrelevant, and unpredictable. Ascott likes joining science and art together when giving examples about the status of the creator and the participator, he states that the embrace of telematic art and the new technologies and the computer behaviors work in the same way that the quantum principle works in physics and in the same way Duchamp joined opposite emotions and interactions to form a telematic style for his art. The new way of creating and receiving the information from Ascott’s perspective is called the "global vision" where the participator/creator thinks, feels, and sees things in his/her own way, in isolation, and with authority to share the ideas, creativity, and senses live with other creators/participators in totally different world of their own. Ascott gives an example of how the computer in the telematic world is like the heart inside the human body is considered the leader of the circulation system and it is invisible but the effects are visible. Basically, what Ascott is trying to say is that the digital media and the computerized world are being totally different that we have known about art and science. It’s a world of immaterial, shared, spiritual, creative, virtual, and concrete data and thoughts.