On preserving new media

Submitted by Anaventura on May 07, 2009, 02:35 PM

I was recently sent a beautiful site with a ShockWave animation I was still able to retrieve the player, install it, go back to the site and watch it. In 2010 though, will I be able to see net art created with Flash 4? 

What steps are being given to preserve new media?

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HASTAC III: What's the Matter with New Arts Media? A Forum on the Ubiquitous Arts

Submitted by vaparedes on Apr 25, 2009, 02:53 AM

With a title that might cause pause, this thought-provoking panel
brought up many compelling issues on the topic of "new arts media."
First of all, notice "new arts media" rather than "new media arts," a
turn in focus that puts the "new" on the artistic practice rather than
the form or the media. Of course, the term "new" is endlessly debatable
- but it's an interesting use. Focusing on the ubiquitous arts, the
panelists spoke on the aesthetics, epistemologies, ontologies,
phenomenologies of artistic practices using the technologies that
surround, fascinate and confound us.

HASTAC III: Continuous Installations | Tuesday, April 21 @ 4:44PM

Submitted by megosfar on Apr 22, 2009, 05:48 PM
Guy Garnett
the Logoverse

Okay, so this was strangely captivating. You walk up to a computer and you're this little i-beam icon. You can type a few simple commands in to m

HASTAC III: Community Informatics Panel | Tuesday, April 21 @ 2:43PM

Submitted by megosfar on Apr 22, 2009, 05:44 PM
The monitor, Tom Maccalla, brought it straight from the dome. Or so Will said.

Will Patterson

HASTAC III: Rapid Fire Lightning Talks | Tuesday, April 21 @ 9:11AM

Submitted by megosfar on Apr 22, 2009, 05:41 PM
Max Edelson
The Cartography of American Colonization Database (CACD)

The big question: How do I take notes on a map? How do I link it to other maps? How do I store this information and join it so I

HASTAC III: Poster Session | Tuesday, April 21 @ 9:08AM

Submitted by megosfar on Apr 22, 2009, 05:36 PM
I got out of the poster sessions today and I have one huge complaint: they were captivating and I didn't want to leave. I had trouble going from one to the other, all for good reasons. There was only an hour for the whole segment, which would have been fine, had they not all been stellar.

HASTAC III: eDream Reception | Tuesday, April 21 @ 8:17AM

Submitted by megosfar on Apr 22, 2009, 05:28 PM
No comments on any one specific thing said, but I came away with one thing last night.

I'm from the University if Illinois. There's a joking-but-somewhat-true divide between "North Campus" and the rest of the school. Most of the engineering/computerscience/techie stuff is up here. The rest of the school is, well, not up here. Our buildings are older (I'm in Linguistics), our facilities are less shiny and new and fast and powerful, and a lot of people that I know up here aren't sure of the worth of what goes on down there.

HASTAC III: DML Panel: Tim Lenoir, Virtual Peace | Monday, April 20, 2009 @ 9:11AM

Submitted by megosfar on Apr 22, 2009, 05:26 PM
Tim's talking about America's Army, which I blogged about earlier this year. If you're unfamiliar with it, it's a video game that doubles as a training environment for soldiers.

They saw another possibility with this, and I love the direction he's taking with it, where instead of

HASTAC III: Digital Media Learning Competition Panel introduction | Monday, April 20, 2009 @ 8:43AM

Submitted by megosfar on Apr 22, 2009, 05:23 PM

Craig Wacker's talk: themes, bits and pieces

How are young people changing as a result of their exposure/immersion in technology?

"geeking out"

program for migrant workers in l.a.
- internet access to provide for

HASTAC III: The conference so far | Monday, April 20, 2009 @ 8:39AM

Submitted by megosfar on Apr 22, 2009, 05:18 PM

consists of me getting a HASTAC III bag (this will be reused for grocery shopping), some tasty fruits, a cream cheese pastry-thing (blintz?). They also kicked my cup of tea out of the auditorium, so it reentered in my ubiquitous green water bottle.

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