This might have been more appropriate for the 'Conserving Media Art' discussion, but please take a look regardless... The Variable Media Network, with the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art Science and Technology are pleased to announce that the transcript for the "Echoes of Art: Emulation As a Preservation Strategy" are now on-line. The conference took place on May 8th 2004, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. "Echoes of Art" which was presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice" (recently reviewed in the LA Times http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-ca-digitalmuseum24apr24,1,2425140.s tory?coll=la-headlines-technology&ctrack=1&cset=trueprovided). "Echoes of Art" provided a forum for artists, curators, conservators and computer scientists to discus the role of emulation in keeping digital culture alive. Participants were: Cory Arcangel, Tilman Baumgaertel, Isaac Dimitrovsky, Mary Flanagan, Roberta Friedman, Joan Heemskerk, Francis Hwang, Jon Ippolito, Caitlin Jones, Pip Laurenson, Christiane Paul, Jeff Rothenberg, John F. Simon Jr., Jill Sterrett, Carol Stringari, and Grahame Weinbren. The transcript is now available at www.variablemedia.net