Viridian Note 00236: Editor At WorkBruce Sterling [bruces@well.com]
Attention Conservation Notice: Ignore this unless you like magazine work or if you are in or near New York City. Entries in the Reddy Kilowatt Makeover Contest: http://www.stanford.edu/~amberk/Greeny_Megawatt.html http://crashvx.freeservers.com/viridian/greeny/ http://www.digitaleverything.com/Reddy.jpg http://www.carladiana.com/reddi.jpeg http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~collettj/greeny_megawatt.jpg http://www.geocities.com/dheedid/reddy.htm http://www.unclestu.com/Viridian/Reddy/reddy.html http://lemoncustard.com/gallery/greeny.html http://artlung.com/viridian02001.1/ http://www.stewarts.org/viridian/greeny.html http://www.imaginaryproducts.com/flipside.html or http://www.imaginaryproducts.com/reddybug.jpg Viridian Contest Archive: http://www.bomoco.com/Viridian/Greenie/greenie.htm And the winner is: Randolph Hoppe (rycomms@rycomms.com*) for the entry at: http://lemoncustard.com/gallery/greeny.html Randolph Hoppe's well-deserved prize is a Reddy Kilowatt bobble-head doll. Link:http://www.wholeearthmag.com (((Ladies and gentlemen, the serried ranks of the Viridian faithful have produced a gratifying response to my call for magazine proposals in Note 00235. We definitely have a magazine on our hands here. In fact, with a little more capital and a squad of editors, it's dead obvious that this mailing list could easily sustain four, maybe five magazines. (((You can stop sending those babies in just any time now; no, really, I'm good. With even a remote bit of luck, this is going to be the most Viridian publication ever seen; the first one that reads, smells, and even looks almost completely, uh, Viridian. The mailing list will take a back seat this month as I assemble this flood of entries into coherent shape and martial my brave graphics volunteers.))) (((In the meantime, I'm heading for New York City, where I plan to deliver a somewhat Viridian-related speech on the issue of digital decay, at a conference aptly titled "Preserving the Immaterial". If you'd like to support the ever-worthy Guggenheim, do drop on by.))) Links: www.guggenheim.org/variablemedia http://www.three.org/z/varia_root/variable_media_initiative.html "Will the museum of the 21st century be an incubator for living artworks or a mausoleum for dead ones? Find out at PRESERVING THE IMMATERIAL: A CONFERENCE ON VARIABLE MEDIA." Peter B. Lewis Theater Sackler Center for Arts Education Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street) New York City Friday, March 30, 7-9 pm Saturday, March 31, 10 am-6 pm "This conference gathers experts in diverse fields, from science fiction writer Bruce Sterling to emulation specialist Jeff Rothenberg, to weigh in on the prickly issues of preserving art in ephemeral media. Participants opening night of the conference." Tickets $10 ($7 members, students, and seniors) per day Box Office (212) 423-3587 boxoffice@guggenheim.org
All events in Peter B. Lewis Theater at Guggenheim uptown unless otherwise noted Tentative audiovisual segments in []s ********Friday 7 pm to 10 pm******** 7:00 John Hanhardt welcomes audience 7:15 Bruce Sterling keynotes on digital obsolescence 7:45 Jon Ippolito introduces variable media paradigm, gives overview of questionnaire [pre-cached Web site] 8:30 Ken Jacobs performs his film performance Bitemporal Vision: The Sea live, then screens and comments on a video of the performance [live dual-projector film performance with filters handed out to audience, followed by video replay of performance on NTSC Beta] 9:15 Wine, water, and light food reception on Rotunda floor ********Saturday 10 am to 6 pm******** 10:00 Hanhardt/Ippolito welcomes audience 10:15 SESSION ON REPRODUCIBLE ARTWORKS [visuals for all of Saturday's case studies will be pre- cached images shown on a Web browser unless otherwise noted] ==Hanhardt introduces the topic ==Ippolito discusses Jan Dibbets' _A White Wall_ ==Carol Stringari discusses Bruce Nauman's _False Silence_ ==Jon Gartenberg interviews Ken Jacobs about his Bitemporal Vision: The Sea[excerpt of NTSC Beta of Bitemporal Vision from Friday night] [excerpt of Flo Rounds the Corner or substitute, either on NTSC Beta or VHS] Hanhardt interviews Stephen Vitiello about Nam June Paik's TV Garden [TV Garden installation footage on NTSC Beta or VHS] Respondents comment: Bill Brand, Paul Kuranko, Mona Jimenez 12:00 Questions from the audience 12:30 Break 1:30 SESSION ON PERFORMATIVE ARTWORKS Ippolito introduces the topic ==Ippolito interviews Robert Morris about his Site and [excerpt of Babette Mangolte film of Site on NTSC Beta transferred from videodisc] ==Stringari interviews Meg Webster about her *Stick 2:45 Questions from the audience 3:15 Break 3:45 SESSION ON INTERACTIVE/DUPLICABLE ARTWORKS 5:30 Questions from the audience 6:00 Hanhardt thanks participants CONSULTANTS ("+" = Preserving the Immaterial participant): +Bill Brand, independent film restorer and artist GUGGENHEIM VARIABLE MEDIA TASK FORCE OTHER PARTICIPATING GUGGENHEIM STAFF
Susan Cross, Assistant Curator
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