Planetary Network at the 1986 Venice Biennale: The Australian Node—An Interview with Paul Thomas
摘要
This chapter emerges from a wide-ranging conversation with artist and researcher Paul Thomas, whose longstanding engagement with media art—both as practitioner and theorist—continues to offer valuable insights into the evolving landscape of art and technology. The interview took place online over two separate sessions, on 16 and 18 December 2024. Centred on the 1986 Venice Biennale, the conversation revisits one of the most important curatorial projects of the 1980s in the context of media art at the Biennale, offering a rare first-hand account of its development and legacy.