Roy Ascott’s LPDT2: Telematic Embrace

1 November 2010 Virtual Art filmed in Second Life® at Angewandte Dialogue pleated by Mab MacMoragh from Roy Ascott’s visionary 1990 essay ’Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?’ (Please pause if video runs too fast to read) Second in a series; the first can be seen here along with more info: LPDT2: Roy Ascott Programming and Architecture: Selavy Oh Architecture and Terrain: MosMax Hax (Max Moswitzer) Avatars and Soundscape: Alpha Auer, Alpho Fullstop and (Elif Ayiter) Avatar Animations: Frigg Ragu (Heidi Dahlsveen) i-DAT: University of Plymouth, UK Simulator Host: University of Applied Fine Arts, Vienna LPDT2 was projected to Real Life throughout September 2010 in Incheon, South Korea during the Incheon International Digital Art Festival (INDAF) 2010 in Tomorrow City, Songdo. ’LPDT2 : The Second Life of La Plissure du Texte’ is the Second Life® incarnation of Roy Ascott’s grou