Telematic Dreaming is a live telematic video installation, linking two remote sites, via a 2MB ISDN telephone line. The video image of a user/performer lying on a bed is sent to a video projector and projected onto another bed. A camera, situated next to the projector, sends an image of the projection back to monitors around the first bed. The complex semiology of the bed heightens the experience of telepresence. ‘The celibacy of the machine brings about the celibacy of "Telematic Man". Exactly as he grants himself the spectacle of his brain and of his intelligence as he sits in front of the computer or word-processor, the "Telematic Man" gives himself the spectacle of his fantasies and of a virtual "jouissance" as he sits in front of his "minitel rose". He exorcises "jouissance" or intelligence in the interface with the machine. The Other, the sexual or cognitive interlocutor, is never really aimed at - crossing the screen evokes the crossing of the mirror. The screen itself is targeted as the point of interface. The machine (the interactive screen) transforms the process of communication, the relation from one to the other, into a process of commutation, i.e. the process of reversibility from the same to the same. The secret of the interface is that the Other is within it virtually the Same - otherness being surreptitiously confiscated by the machine.’ Jean Baudrillard, ‘Xerox and Infinity’, Paris 1987. This installation was originally produced for the Koti exhibition at the Kajaani Art Gallery in the north of Finland, linked to the Helsinki Telegalleria, in June 1992.