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March 2013 '''The Internet Before The Web: Preserving Early Networked Cultures''' \|t Rhizome.org panel discussion at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, featuring Archivist and historian '''Jason Scott''', and '''Wolfgang Staehle''' founder of The Thing BBS in conversation with Digital Conservator '''Ben Fino-Radin'''.{br}Part of '''Rhizome: New Silent''' @ The New Museum - 235 Bowery - Manhattan - NYC{br}''Fri 8 March 2013 - 7:00pm'' ----\|tr [../files/img/201303_thing.jpg\|../files/img/201303_thingb.jpg]\| ---- '''URLS''' : * http://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/the-internet-before-the-web-preserving-early-networked-cultures * [Archives2013] ''(wiki news page)'' ---- '''Press''' : * [2013 March 15 — '''The Verge''' : "The Thing" Redialed: how a BBS changed the art world and came back from the dead, ''by Joshua Kopstein''\|http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/15/4104494/the-thing-reloaded-bringing-bbs-networks-back-from-the-dead] ---- '''Videos''' : * [Come to @newmuseum to see The Thing BBS — Peter Halley in #NYC1993\|http://vine.co/v/brA3wa9qbmF] — http://vine.co/v/brA3wa9qbmF ---- {br} {html} <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Pn5C-fJv60M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> {/html} {br} ---- The Rhizome: New Silent series will present contemporary art engaged with new technology. The series will include screenings and performances, as well as a critical conversational strand that will bring together leading scholars, artists, critics, and public figures to illuminate the complex interactions between technology, culture, and creative practice. The series will present artists working at the furthest reaches of technological experimentation as well as those responding to the broader aesthetic and political implications of new tools and media. The Rhizome: New Silent series takes its name from the generational theories of Neil Howe and William Strauss, who have written about the deep influence that new technologies will have on the generation born after 1996.{br}{small}http://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/series/newsilent {/small}{br}{br}’93 is marked as a significant year in the web with the launch of the image-based Mosaic browser. Yet in 1993, pre-www technologies still reigned supreme. Bulletin Board System (BBS), email, and usenet groups offered a largely text-based communication system and, although rudimentary, they hinted at global connectivity to come. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “NYC 1993,” this event positions that year as the last era before the popular web and explores the cultures and artists working in this early networked context. A particular focus lies on the Thing—an electronic BBS based out of a cyber-utopian social hub in downtown Manhattan and used by some of the earliest contemporary artists working online.{br}The evening will present Rhizome at the New Museum’s Digital Conservator Ben Fino-Radin in conversation with renowned archivist, historian, and documentary filmmaker Jason Scott and Wolfgang Staehle, artist and founder of The Thing BBS.{br}This event marks the launch of Rhizome’s major new preservation project to make the Thing BBS archive accessible to the public for the first time in over a decade.{br}{br}The Thing is an international net-community of artists and art-related projects that was started in 1991 by Wolfgang Staehle. By the late 1990s, The Thing grew into a diverse online community made up of dozens of members' Web sites, mailing lists, a successful Web hosting service, a community studio in Chelsea (NYC), and the first Web site devoted to Net Art: bbs.thing.net. Staehle pioneered on those artistic practises that explored the computer networks as a new territory for creation, founding in 1991 “The Thing”, a platform which offered not only an infrastructure for accessing the networks, but also a space for experimentation with new types of unheard electronic practices, which a few years later were to be defined as "temporary autonomus zones" or "tactical media". The Thing has enabled a diverse group of artists, critics, curators, and activists to use the internet in its early stages. At its core, The Thing is a social network, made up of individuals from diverse backgrounds with a wide range of expert knowledge. From this social hub, The Thing has built an array of programs and initiatives, in both technological and cultural networks.{br}Among many others, artists and projects associated with thing.net have included Sawad Brooks, Heath Bunting, Cercle Ramo Nash, Vuk Cosic, Ricardo Dominguez, Ursula Endlicher, etoy, GH Hovagimyan, Jérôme Joy, John Klima, Jenny Marketou, Mariko Mori, Olivier Mosset, Prema Murty, Mark Napier, Joseph Nechvatal, Phil Niblock, Daniel Pflumm, Francesca da Rimini, Beat Streuli and Beth Stryker.{br}{br}----{br}{small}Organized by Rhizome, the New Silent Series receives major support from The Rockefeller Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Education and public programs are made possible by a generous grant from Goldman Sachs Gives at the recommendation of David and Hermine Heller.{/small}{br}{br} [../files/img/201303_nyc.jpg\|../files/img/201303_nycb.jpg]{br}{small}The New Museum, designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA, is a seven-story, eight-level structure located at 235 Bowery between Stanton and Rivington Streets, at the origin of Prince Street in New York City.{br}The New Museum began as an idea in the mind of founding Director Marcia Tucker. As a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1967 through 1976, Tucker observed firsthand that new work by living artists was not easily assimilated into the conventional exhibition and collection structure of the traditional art museum.{/small} {br}{br} ---- {html} <TABLE BORDER="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD bgcolor="yellow" width="100%">    <br> </TD></TR></TABLE> {/html}
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