Maine-based sharing networks in the news
Still Water’s co-directors are in the news this month in articles about an online song-and-story sampler and crowdfunding for indie movie projects.
memory
Still Water unleashes wind and rain in Istanbul at ISEA 2011
Drawing on the forthcoming book New Media and Social Memory co-authored with Richard Rinehart, Jon Ippolito speaks on “Wind, Rain, and Ambient Preservation” at ISEA 2011 in Istanbul.
Hands-on with emulators, reinterpretation in Variable Media class
A variable media class in the New Media Department at the University of Maine this term introduces undergraduates to concepts of new media preservation and gives them hands-on experience with some of its tools. The NMD205 syllabus includes a range of preservation strategies such as emulation, migration, and reinterpretation. As part of their coursework, students …
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Forging in Bruce Sterling’s Wired magazine blog
Author and ephemeral-media expert Bruce Sterling noted the launch of the Forging the Future Web site last week in his blog for Wired magazine, Beyond the Beyond. As the originator of the famed “Dead Media List,” Sterling knows more than just about anybody about the problem of technical amnesia. Acknowledging the speedy obsolescence of contemporary …
“New Media in the White Cube” in the White Cube
Forging the Future principals Christiane Paul and Carol Stringari, as well as fellow travellers Sarah Cook and Steve Dietz, present Christiane’s new anthology “New Media in the White Cube” at 5:30pm today at Eyebeam Atelier in New York. The book includes essays on variable media presentation and preservation by the assembled speakers as well as …
New preservation tools for scholars, dancers
Still Water Senior Researcher Craig Dietrich chaired the panel “Born-Digital Scholarship: New Strategies, Projects, and Possibilities” at HASTAC III: Traversing Digital Boundaries, University of Illinois, April 21st, 2009. Along with introducing the panel, Craig presented an overview of ThoughtMesh and the Variable Media Questionnaire to an audience of digital humanities scholars and tools builders. ThoughtMesh, …
Forging at NEDCC, Gonzalez-Torres Foundation
More Forging presentations: Berkeley’s Rick Rinehart presented “The Persistence of Memory” at the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), held in Chicago from December 9-10, 2008. Meanwhile Still Water’s Jon Ippolito discussed the variable media approach to the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres at a meeting of the FGT Foundation in New York from 23-25 January.