The Other End, perceive the remote presence.

The conceptual possibilities of a work of art on the web have always been prosperous, for the abstraction easily estrinsecabile by the medium and its extreme flexibility fiction, also linked to new combinations between aduse and innovative techniques. The Other End , Kevin Hamilton applies, in fact, old rules concerning atavistic signs from the meanings for us unequivocal. The work consists in the representation of two indicator lights, one can be switched by the user and the other from another remote user, respectively aware of their presence through the pulsing red light of the other. With a minimum technology are touched deep chords, revealing one of the essences of electronic communication, that is, the perception of the presence of others, here encoded as artificial light signal response. The intention of the author is also a conceptual use of broadband for an extremely low-tech, but it is clear that interactivity is essential and in a sense mystical produced here concerns our basic necessities of communication and amazement that still causes the feeling that in a distant location or remote it may be, there is another human being who is willing to interact with us.