This video was broadcast on KGO television in San Francisco. In the story, I'm in the red shirt sitting at the controls and at the end recieve quite an endorsement from the reporter.

In 1992, I was asked by Ulysses Jenkins, an Artist in Residence at Exploratorium, to assist him at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in producing Videophone Day.

The event involved three video cameras, a video switcher and two phone lines (one using a slow-scan video technology that allowed images to be transmitted while the other carried audio to and from a mixer). In 1992 we were lucky to get one frame ever 20 seconds or so, which may not sound like much now but was certainly cutting edge then.

For this event we were transmitting from San Francisco to The Electronic Cafe in Santa Monica, CA and Western Front in Vancouver, Canada.

For Ulysses' earlier residencey at Exploratorium, we were in contact with a facility at Hudson Bay in Canada near the Arctic Circle that he had discovered used videophones to sell local crafts and wares to the US. This allowed them to run a high tech mail order business from the wild making them pioneers in new media and telecommuting.

[Copied from the Exploratorium website]]

Ulysses Jenkins (Fall 1990)
Ulysses Jenkins produced a performance/video called "Bay Window" which linked communities from San Francisco, Santa Monica, Seattle, the Artic Circle, and the Haida Indian's canoe carving project at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Using current telephone and computer technologies, this residency brought the public in contact with a model for a communication bridge and provided an opportunity for the forging of an important ecological statement of concern.