 Ascott has shown at the Venice Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Electra Paris, Ars Electronica, V2 Institute for the Unstable Media, Milan Triennale, Biennale do Mercosul, Brazil, European Media Festival, and gr2000az at Graz, Austria.His first telematic project was "La Plissure du Texte" (1983), an online work of "distributed authorship" involving artists around the world.The second was his "gesamtdatenwerk" "Aspects of Gaia