Reversing the Lens System: The DAX Group in 1991

The Digital Art Exchange (DAX Group) of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a diverse group of artists, engineers and researchers collaborating on various telematic projects. The group’s intent is to create ‘thought bundles’—cultural probes that connect people throughout the world via global networks. In order to see the electronic age for what it is, we must create a new paradigm and learn to deal with the altered consciousness resulting from the rapid development of technology. Further, the immediacy of telecommunications can take on an irony and intensity when planned projects collide with actual world events that are transmitted on a global scale.