LALON -- LONLA

Ted Lovett, of Team Mega Mix fame, has unveiled his new project 'LALON -- LONLA'.

Digital technology can do much to mirror the experience of human communication and it attempts to make the process as real as possible. However, because the data transmitted by digital technology is not a real, physical thing (it's infinitesimally small electrical charge) it cannot represent the physical aspects of actual face-to-face communication. Video chat using iChat or Skype allows individuals or groups to communicate over great distances almost instantaneously and for free. You can see and hear your counterparts and their respective environments, but you cannot possibly feel, smell or taste the thing the other can. Therefore experiences of physical things and locations outside your native environment can only be achieved through the use of your imagination - the physical must be imagined.

By using the descriptive and imaginative powers of the two participants the LALON - LONLA Object / Experience Facsimile Machine attempts to communicate the physical characteristics of two geographically and physically unconnected locations - Los Angeles, U.S.A. and London, U.K.

http://www.lalon-lonla.org/