Abstract:
This paper will examine the concept of ‘data space’ and sentient ‘presence’ in
relation to practice-based research being pursued by myself and others working in
the institutional space that lies between the disciplines of art and science. It will
consider the broader Western cultural context for the idea of presence and the
contemporary literature produced by presence researchers. The artefacts of three
contemporary artists working with presence in the physical spaces of public
museums and galleries, will be described in the context of telepresence in the
domain of cyberspace.
