Italian curator Laura Barreca on “Technology versus History”
“Technology versus History”: A talk with Laura Barreca on Monday 30 November 4-5:30pm
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Forging the Future in Korea
Jack Toolin included themes from Forging the Future in a presentation at the Incheon Digital Art Festival (INDAF) 2009 in Incheon, Korea, on 7 August 2009. The festival coincided with an exhibition proposing a city whose inhabitants are connected by a digital environment, as reflected in the show’s three sub-themes–Inter-Face, Inter-Space, and Inter-Time.
Santa Cruz dives into The Pool
The Pool, an online collaborative environment created by Still Water, has earned a headline story in Wired magazine, a feature in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and a demonstration at Harvard’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. Yet with the exception of a semester-long experiment with students from UC-Berkeley in 2003, until this year …
“Future Now”: can artists influence the future?
From 24-26 September 2009, Espacio Enter brought artists, performers, technologists, and theorists to Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa. Organized by Montse Arbelo and Joseba Franco, directors and founders of ART TECH MEDIA, the conference explored possible scenarios for the future of creativity and new media over the next few …
“Think like a Network”
“Think like a Network,” a remote presentation by Jon Ippolito at The Art of With conference, argued for expanding the participatory possibilities of arts institutions to an audience of art enthusiasts and professionals gathered at Cornerhouse in Manchester, UK, on 24 June 2009. “Think like a Network” argued that museums reinforce boundaries for rare experiences …
Getting Art out of the Hothouse
“Out of the Hothouse and into the Wild,” a presentation by Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito at the ARCO Madrid Experts Forum on 15 February 2009, aimed to remind visitors to this international art fair that new media are the norm outside the artworld, even if they are ghettoized within it. In the age of …
“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 …
Marilyn Lutz presents MANS at Digital Humanities and JCDL
In Austin and Maryland this June, the University of Maine’s Marilyn Lutz presented progress by the Forging the Future alliance on new ways to share data among separate repositories, including the Media Art Notation System (MANS) developed by Rick Rinehart and the Forging the Future Metaserver, a sort of ISBN for art under construction by …
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Forging the Future in Taiwan, Amsterdam, and Los Angeles
As part of her lecture on “New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Presenting and Preserving New Media Art” at MoCA Taipei, Taiwan, Christiane Paul presented the Forging the Future initiative and the Variable Media Questionnaire on May 3, 2009. Christiane also presented the Forging the Future Initiative and the VMQ at the expert …
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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, …