For example, regular phones provide a telecommunications sound option that has been grossly underexplored by artists. Scrolling computer text is often not visually appealing and difficult to resolve. Even worse, it is often inappropriate for the artistic focus of a particular event. Artists need to begin to attend carefully to how the information being telecommunicated manifests. If computer text does not make artistic sense, then other options should be considered.
Artists can be key innovators in development of ways to send information in other forms.
There may be some gems, but there is no way most of the participants would tolerate reading the material if it were in hard copy or listenting to it if someone were speaking the words. To a certain extent, the uneven quality can be attributed to the newness of the art form. Also, the excitement of telecom linkages and the spontaneity of real time interchange limit the polish that can be applied to the transmissions. As telecom networks become more commonplace, these rationales will be less convincing. Eventually artists will need to find a way to craft the words or other communications.