NOTES

1. Capra, Fritjof. The Turning Point. London: Fontana, 1983, p. 330. (New York : Simon & Schuster, 1982)

2. See Forest, Fred. Art sociociologique - Vidéo. Paris: Editions 10/18, U.G.E. 1977. See also Wick, Raioner. " Nicht Kunst, nicht Soziologie. " Kunstforum, Band 27, 3-78.

3. Thom, René. " Imbécilité et délire ". Le Monde, 1.VII. 1984, in supplement Le Monde aujourd'hui. p. xvi. Translators'version.

4. McLuhan, Marshall: Understanding Media. 2nd ed., New York: McGraw Hill, 1964, p. 214.

5. McLuhan, Marshall. Ibid. p. ix

6. Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of the Mind. London : Intertext Books, 1972, p. 138. (New York, Ballantine, 1972).

7. Von Bertalanffy, Ludwig. General System Theory. New York: George Brazilier, 1968. See pp. 27 ff, 66, 132ff, 156ff.

8. In 1983, a telephone network was set up in Paris which offers an erotic conversation, charged per fifteen minutes.

9. See Popper, Franck. Le déclin de l'objet. Paris: Chêne, 1975. See also Lippard, Lucy R. (ed.) . Six Years: the dematerialization fo the art object from 1966 to 1972... New York: Praeger and London: Studio Vista, 1973.

10. See Forest, Fred. Op. cit. passim.

11. Popper, Frank. Art, action et participation. Paris: Klincksieck, 1980, p. 14. Translators' version. (See also the same author's analogous work: Art - Action and Participation. New York : New York University Press, 1975).

12. The Family Portrait action, carried out by Fred Forest in L'Hay-Les-Roses, a housing estate on the outskirts of Paris.

13. Daval, Jean-Luc. " La relation comme interrogation. " In Relation et relation. Liège: Yellow Now, 1981, p. 102 f. Translator's version.

14. See Eco, Umberto. Opera aperta. Milano: Bompiani, 1962. (Eco has redefined his terms in English: see his The Role of the Reader. Bloomington: Indiana University Press and London: Hutchison, 1979.

15. Hall, Edward T. " Proxemics . " Current Anthropoloty, vol. 9, 2-3, 1968, p. 90.

16. Bateson, Gregory: Op. cit. , p. 130.

17. Costa, Mario. Open talk, in the course of the Electra exhibition, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, December 1982. Translator's version.

18. Outside of his occasional involvment as a member of the Sociological Art Collective between 1974 and 1979, a major part of Fred Forest personal activity has always been devoted to research of this nature.

19. De Kerckhove, Derrick. Director of the Marshall McLuhan Program, University of Toronto, in correspondence with the author, November 1983. Translator's version.