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As a unique artist, critic and performer, New York-based Douglas Davis has played an integral role in the evolution of the contemporary electronic arts. For this lecture, Davis continues his involvement, offering a new theory of the destiny of the arts in the next century with specific references to the beginnings of video and performance art in the 60's and web art in the 90's. As a pioneer video artist, Davis deployed various interactive technologies to question the passivity of television. In 1977, he joined Nam June Paik and Joseph Beuys for the first international satellite telecast by artists, transmitted from Documenta 6. The World's First Collaborative Visions of the Beautiful.