(((Hopefully, I actually make it California through the fog, this time.)))
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/about_bampfa/avantgarde.html
Jan. 18, 2007
The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is proud to present New Media & Social Memory, a public symposium to discuss strategies for preserving digital art at a time when digital technologies are evolving and becoming obsolete at an astonishingly rapid pace. While focussing on digital art, the symposium will also address larger concerns about the long-term conservation of our increasingly digital culture, including how we decide what digital content - from Web sites to video games - are worth saving. The full day of presentations and panel discussions by leading experts in the field of digital preservation will be held in the museum theater on Thursday, Jan. 18.
This symposium is open to the public free of charge; however, due to limited space, online registration is required.
Symposium Program
10:00-10:15
Introductions
Richard Rinehart, Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator, BAM/PFA
Jane Metcalfe, Founder & Original Publisher, Wired Magazine, BAM/PFA Board
10:15-11:00
Stewart Brand, President, Long Now Foundation
11:10-12:00
Stewart Brand, President, Long Now Foundation, in conversation with Kevin Kelly, Editor at Large, Wired Magazine
Jon Ippolito, Assistant Professor of New Media, University of Maine
12:00-1:00
Lunch break
1:10-2:00
Alexander Rose, Executive Director, Long Now Foundation
Kurt Bollacker, Digital Research Director, Long Now Foundation
2:10-3:00
Marisa Olsen, Editor and Writer, Rhizome.org
Michael Katchen, Archivist, Franklin Furnace
3:10-4:00
Jeff Rothenberg, Computer Scientist
Richard Rinehart, Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator, BAM/PFA
4:10-5:00
Bruce Sterling, Author, Founder, Dead Media Project
5:00-7:00
Public reception
Contact: Richard Rinehart, [email protected]. Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Digital/Media Art is a consortium project of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Cleveland Performance Art Festival and Archive, Franklin Furnace Archive, and Rhizome.org, and is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
