The conference was well and enthusiastically attended, and went a long way to sanctify this growing field as part of legitimate IT mainstream. Telematic art is interactive. VRML is the favorite tool of telematic artists. The user can fly through it, surround it, go through doors to multiple layers of it, etc. This was a good topic for an educator to begin with since it prompted many pedagogical speculations about the value of interactivity.
Telematic art is informal and subjective.
As a viewer, you are invited to assert your own persona into it. In fact, that is a common theme of all hypermedia driven art including film. You can dictate events and scenes. This continues a trend from Picasso, Braque, DuChamp and others inviting the viewer to so impose their own feelings, thoughts or imagination into a scene as to be master of it. Like God, the subject has an immediate 3D and 4D experience of their own cosmos.