Videocomunicatore
Video-communicator
- Date of creation : 1972
- Country : Italy
- Artist - Author : Ugo La Pietra
Description
"Ugo La Pietra designed the Videocomunicatore [Video-communicator] for the Triennale in Milan: a series of wooden booths spread all over the city in which anyone could record a video message and view the previous ones". (Source : Valentino Catricalà & Laura Leuzzi, "The Chronology of Video Art in Italy, 1952-1992", Rewind Italia: Early Video Art in Italy, Laura Leuzzi & Stephen Partridge (eds.) John Libbey, New Barnet, 2016, p. 322.)
"the individual Videocomunicatore cabin allows audiovisual messages to be sent which are then rebroadcast on screens placed around the city". (Source, website, FRAC Centre-Val-de-Loire).
Additional Informations
View photographs of the work (Source, website, FRAC Centre-Val-de-Loire)
- Type : urban furniture
Publications and Periodicals which reference the work
- Laura Leuzzi & Stephen Partridge (eds.), Rewind Italia: Early Video Art in Italy, John Libbey, New Barnet, 2016.