Hello! — Telematic Café (TC) is greeting you and announcing the coming of its next event! The inaugural appearance of TC as part of Telematic Embrace – Café that took place at George Paton Gallery (University of Melbourne Union House, May 2015) – the venue famous for its radical approaches to art in Australia in the 1970s and 80s – established TC as an archaeological and reflective project seeking meanings of technology-based mediation in post-digital conditions. It is the wider motivation of TC to revisit and refresh avant-garde visions in the time of digital culture.

The next edition of Telematic Café is making its way to you by continuing explorations into old and new technologies. Its key guidelines are: to create transformative, transient and temporary “telematic communication models,” – this may take various forms including distributed spatial constructs by means of telecommunication networks but should ultimately focus on awareness and creative thinking about the Medium of our expanded connections and experiences.

The TC project is not programmatic, but rather discursive, and curious to ask a question – what can be learnt by the possibilities of the post-digital aesthetics of representation within the meta-space of networks (the data extracted from these networks) but also – the avant-gardist tradition of instigating, within an experimental art process, alternative real-time systems for communication, or even relationships? A platform of testing and “tasting” of what’s on Menu, TC occupies the field of art where it matters how it operates here and now: TC functions as an interactive environment in social, collective, possibly – collaborative contexts.