Van Gogh TV. Critical Edition, Multimedia-documentation and analysis of their Estate.

该项目的目标是研究货车高电视的开创性工作，这是一个由黑客和艺术家组成的集体，他们在20世纪90年代初创建了开创性的在线交流平台。通过像Piazza Virtualale这样的项目，他们对1992年文献展的贡献，他们为当代社交媒体（如Facebook或Twitter）的合作和沟通可能性提供了蓝图。使用互联网出现之前提供给他们的技术工具，他们试图创造一种合作媒体实践，一个多对多的网络，旨在成为传统大众媒体模式的替代品。这种媒体实践包括在德国、奥地利和日本的电视台定期播放晚间节目，使用传真、慢扫描电视和电子公告板服务（BBS）。为了创造这种沟通环境，该小组不得不建造自己的设备并编写自己的软件，他们的许多发明预见了今天在线媒体、远程机器人和物联网的发展。然而，由于在过去的二十年里他们的庄园完全无法进入，他们的工作尚未进入开创性媒体项目的历史经典。该项目将采用四种方法来处理其主题。首先，该集团的财产必须准备长期保存。超过2000小时的模拟视频、虚拟广场的完整纸质文件以及与该项目有关的数字文件和电子邮件将被转移到长期存储介质中，并移交给卡塞尔的文献档案馆，供其他学者查阅。其次，货车高电视台的50多名参与者中的许多人将接受采访，以便为该项目创造一个口述历史，将档案材料置于背景中。口述历史将作为专著出版，这一材料将成为对该小组工作和新型媒体形成进行理论研究的基础。货车高的电视作品是研究技术进步在成为现实之前是如何被预测的理想课题。使用一些不同的理论方法来研究乌托邦思维如何导致媒体创新（e。G. Zielinski，Huhtamo，Parikka，Daniels），我们的目标是把货车高电视的工作在媒体发展的理论框架。为此，我们还计划与国际学者和专家举行三次会议。利用大学和应用艺术学院之间的独特合作，这些材料还将成为展览、电影纪录片和网站的基础，向学术界以外的观众介绍我们的研究。

The goal of the project is to study the groundbreaking work of Van Gogh TV, a collective of hackers and artists who created pioneering online-communication platforms in the early 1990s. With projects like Piazza Virtuale, their contribution to the documenta 1992, they provided a blueprint for the collaborative and communicative possibilities of contemporary Social Media such as Facebook or Twitter.Using the technological tools available to them before the advent of the internet, they tried to create a type of collaborative media practice, a many-to-many-network that was meant to be an alternative to the traditional model of the mass media. This media practice included regular nightly shows on television stations in Germany, Austria and Japan, the use of Fax, Slow Scan Television and the Bulletin Board Services (BBS).To create this type of communication situation, the group had to build their own devices and program their own software, and many of their inventions anticipitated todays developments in online media, telerobotics and the Internet of Things. However, due to the complete inaccessibility of their estate in the last two decades, their work has not yet entered the historical canon of pioneering media projects. The project will use four approaches towards its subject. First of all, the estate of the group has to be readied for long-term preservation. Over 2000 hours of analogue videos, the complete paper files of Piazza Virtuale and digital files and emails regarding the project will be transferred to long-term storage media and handed over to the documenta Archiv in Kassel, where they will be accessible to other scholars.Secondly, a good number of the over 50 participants of Van Gogh TV will be interviewed in order to create an oral history of the project that will contextualize the archival material. The oral history will be published as a monograph in its own right.This material will be the basis for a theoretical study of the groups work and the coming-into-being of new types of media. The oeuvre of Van Gogh TV is an ideal subject to study the way technological advances are anticipitated before they become reality. Using a number of different theoretical approaches on how Utopian thinking leads to media innovation (e. g. Zielinski, Huhtamo, Parikka, Daniels), we aim to place the work of Van Gogh TV in a framework of theories of media development. For that purpose, we are also making plans for three conferences with international scholars and experts.Taking advantage of the unique collaboration between a university and a School of Applied Art, the material will also be the basis for an exhibition, a film documentary and a website that will present our research to an audience beyond academia.