Tele-Sky Unplugged 断线的远程天空 (2023)

Tele-Sky Unplugged (2023)

sky, CRT TV casing, mirror, camera lens, diffuser

Tele-Sky Unplugged is a reinterpretation of Aldo Tambellini’s Tele-Sky (1981). The original piece showcased slow-scan transmissions of live sky images from three different countries, displayed on CRT TVs. In this recreation, the original telepresence art is presented in an unplugged form: a CRT TV is repurposed by replacing all its electronic components with a mirror and a lens. This allows its screen to reflect the immediate sky of the viewer's environment, rather than electronically displaying distant skies via satellite transmissions, processed signals, and pixels.

The original Tele-Sky (1981) was a part of the Sky Art movement that peaked during the 1980s, centered at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at MIT. The recreation extends the Sky Art artists’ exploration of the sky as a canvas to the sky itself as media—not just as a backdrop but as an integral part of our environmental and media landscape. It’s also a critique of the infrastructures silently integrating into our natural surroundings and the politics surrounding satellite technologies, as well as a dialogue between artists who lived under the Space Race and Cold War-era sky and the sky of today.

断线的远程天空（2023）

天空，CRT电视外壳，镜子，相机镜头，漫射屏

《断线的远程天空（Tele-Sky Unplugged）》是对艺术家Aldo Tambellini的作品《远程天空（Tele-Sky）》（1981）的重新诠释，原作通过CRT电视展示了来自三个不同国家的实时天空图像的慢扫描传输。在这次重新创作中，作为遥现作品的原作以其不插电的形式呈现：一个CRT电视被改造，其中的所有电子元件被更换为一个镜子和一个相机镜头。这使得它的屏幕能够反射观察者周围环境的即时天空，而不是通过卫星传输，处理过的信号和像素电子地显示遥远的天空。

原版的《远程天空（Tele-Sky）》是在 20 世纪 80 年代达到顶峰的天空艺术运动（Sky Art）的一部分，该运动以麻省理工学院先进视觉研究中心 (Center for Advanced Visual Studies / CAVS) 为中心。这一运动的创始人是 CAVS 的第二任主席Otto Piene。重新诠释的作品扩展了天空艺术运动中艺术家对天空作为画布的探索，将天空本身视为一种媒体。

这种在一台电视中展示真实天空的做法是：对穿透许多自然环境的现代基础设施（以供电系统和卫星系统为例）的重新想象；也是生活在太空竞赛和冷战时期天空下的艺术家与生活在如今的天空之下的艺术家之间的对话；以及提醒我们，天空（以及更广义的环境）也是媒介。