The San Jose Museum of Art, in California's Silicon Valley is an appropriate place and opportunity for Sherrie Rabinowitz to showcase the diversity contained within the Electronic Cafe International Archives, an important part of the history of telecollaborations and multimedia networking as an emerging art form.

This exhibition is the first public showing of an ongoing project to preserve and publish online the 25+ years of work contained in the "Electronic Cafe International Archive."

The installation consists of an inviting sofa that provides a rest area in an otherwise formal exhibition environment. A DVD and large screen display loops a 30 minute video that covers the body of work with commentary provided by Rabinowitz & Galloway.

The accessible public computer multimedia installation allows the public to examine and explore the historic documents, video clips, articles, images, event highlights, project descriptions, early project proposals, and storyboard art illustrating project concepts prior to becoming a reality.

The DVD and computer-based exhibition takes museum visitors through an overview of an extensive body of work including the NASA supported 1977, "Satellite Arts" Project; the 1980, New York-Los Angeles, "Hole -In -Space" Project; the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival, "Electronic Cafe" Network; and the ten years of tele-collaborative work created around-the-world at "Electronic Cafe International-HQ," (ECI), based at the 18th Street Arts Complex in Santa Monica California. The ECI Archive Project is a vision of the possibilities of a rich, dynamic, and participatory online multimedia archive.