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.
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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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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, …
New media curator Christiane Paul presented themes from Forging the Future at “Cool Fusion,” a symposium at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art / Case Western Reserve University, from 23-24 January 2009. Meanwhile at the American Library Association’s Mid-Winter Conference in Denver, 23-28 January 2009, Marilyn Lutz and Sharon Fitzgerald of the University of Maine …
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.
Forging the Future representative Michael Katchen of Franklin Furnace presented the “Future of the Present” at the Society of American Archivists in San Francisco in August 2008. Michael focused on the coalition’s plans for combining folksonomy and taxonomy vocabularies.
