Global Art Manifesto by prof. Derrick de Kerckhove (University of Toronto), presented at New Media Days, Katowice 2008, www.dninowychmediow.pl

1. A manifesto for global art [email_address] Katowice 21 November 2008

3. Not on Wikipedia Not communication art Not space art Not planetary art Not network art Not satellite art But related to all the above

8. Yann Arthus-Bertrand

9. La Terre vue du ciel

13. La plissure du texte (1983)

15. Joe Davis Red Ruby Falls (project 1984)

18. Fred Forest

19. Le centre du monde (Fred Forest 1999)

21. La conscience des limites Gaia, 1992 Galileo, 1993

23. Sensorium The Japanese concepts of "I (myself)" and "human being" reflect the essential and ambivalent "network-like" nature of our being. The Japanese "I" ("jibun") implies the existence only within a relational context, one that comprises both the relational aspects within myself and the holonic and relational structure of the universe.

24. Stelarc Ping Body

26. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

27. Alzado Vectorial Mexico City 1999-2000

28. Lorella Abenavoli Le Souffle de la Terre (1996-2002) Nox Mater with Nicolas Reeves 2007

30. Emotional Traffic 2005

31. TRANSINTERACTIVITY

32. Example Sites – Initial Installation Examples: BCE Place or Eaton Center, Toronto

33. Galleria Vittorio Emannuelle II in Milan

34. Eaton Center - Toronto Eaton Gallery Toronto People will approach a large screen onto which a live, life-size, remote image is projected.

35. Eaton Center - Toronto People in one place will see and hear the distant persons as if they were physically present.

36. Eaton Center - Toronto The distant surroundings will appear to be a natural continuation of the local space

37. Eaton Center - Toronto

39. Feeding global emotions

40. In the electric age, we wear all mankind as our skin