[2] Roy Ascott sees the telematic art form as the transformation of the viewer into an active participator of creating the artwork which remains in process throughout its duration.
In this essay, Brecht advocated the two-way communication for radio to give the public the power of representation and to pull it away from the control of corporate media.
[4] In 1977, 'Satellite Arts Project' by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz[5] used satellites to connect artists on the east and west coast of the United States.
For this project, he used Jacques Vallée's Infomedia Notepad System, which made it possible for the users to retrieve and add information stored in the computer’s memory.
As reported by Don Foresta,[10] Karen O'Rourke,[11] and Gilbertto Prado,[12] several French artists made some collective art experiments using the Minitel, among them Jean-Claude Anglade,[13] Jacques-Elie Chabert,[14] Frédéric Develay,[15] Jean-Marc Philippe,[16] Fred Forest,[17] Marc Denjean[18] and Olivier Auber.
[19] These mostly-forgotten experiments (with notable exceptions like the still-active Poietic Generator) foreshadowed later web applications, especially the social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, even as they offered theoretical critiques of them.