Data sheet (Research project):
| "Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media" Research Project - Continuation of "Archiving the Avant-Garde" |
| Title of research project Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Preservation |
| Location of research project University of Maine, University of California at Berkeley, Rhizome.org, Franklin Furnace performance archive, New Langton Arts, and the Whitney Museum |
| Participation method Mention |
| Theme 1- Conservation of media art |
Observer: Raphaëlle Aubin |
Directed by John Ippolito, "Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Preservation" is a two-year research project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is the continuation of the (now expired) "Archiving the Avant-Garde: Documenting and Preserving Digital / Variable Media Art" research project. "Forging the Future" consists of a consortium of museums and cultural heritage organizations dedicated to building new vocabularies and tools for cultural preservation. The tools produced by the "Forging the Future" consortium will go beyond the default storage paradigm to include the full range of preservation techniques explored the Variable Media Network. Headed by the University of Maine's "Still Water" program ("Still Water - for network art and culture" is a New Media program at the University of Maine, and was founded in 2002 by Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito to promote network art and culture), the consortium includes the University of California at Berkeley, the online art platform Rhizome.org, the Franklin Furnace performance archive, New Langton Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. |
Links: Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Preservation [Online] (Page consulted April 9, 2007) Still Water - for network art and culture [Online] (Page consulted April 9, 2007) "Archiving the Avant-Garde: Documenting and Preserving Digital / Variable Media Art" Research Project [Online] (Page consulted April 9, 2007) Variable Media Network [Online] (Page consulted April 9, 2007) |
