Description

Black Sea Diary was produced for the Venice Biannual Electronic Cafe 1993 and published by Scalo Verlag Patrick Frey Editions in Zurich and Berlin the same year.

Black Sea Diary takes two artists, Felix Stephan Huber (Switzerland) and Philip Pocock (Canada) eastward from Cologne through the recently opened East Europe, along the border of war-torn Serbia, to the Black Sea. While the artists journeyed East, their digital photographs and text traveled West over telephone lines, composed with the first Mac Powerbook 100, sponsored Logitech digital cameras, a Fax-Modem, huge phonebills! and custom handling of images previsualized to be printed at the Venice Biannual on a FAX machine.

Black Sea Diary extends the tradition of Canadian FAX and telecommunication art and aesthetics to embrace mobility, travel-as-art, roadmovie scripting and digital media telecommunications technology in 1993.