Electronic Cafe Project
L.A. Olympic Arts Festival
1984
| "The setup, which included
a writing tablet for those unfamiliar with a computer keyboard, was designed
to be simple enough that anyone could use it. Said Galloway: 'Electronic
Cafe was a place in which anyone could come and register their ideas or
opinions. It was a place where people could document their lives or achievements
publicly. . . like the shoeshine boy who walked into Anna Maria's restaurant
in East L.A., complaining of people who wore running shoes and how there
wasn't a good piece of leather to polish any more. Then, he sat down and
pointed the camera at a photograph of his sister, who was killed in a
auto accident two years ago, put it on the screen, wrote this poem in
Spanish and stored it on the optical disc system. He got it right away.'"
--
L.A. Times, October 1987
|
Kay Torres, artist-in-residence at Anna Maria's
