A Hole in Space LA-NY, 1980 -- the mother of all video chats

Larry press · 25K views · 2013 · 29:46

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Documents a 1980 art project that pioneered real-time video communication between Los Angeles and New York using satellite technology.

Linked by 8 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including sfmoma.org, circleid.com, troikatronix.com, mouchette.org, alos.bg.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Kathy Rae Huffman.