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Michael, You forgot to say if you're using iron-gall ink, if it's goatskin leather or goatskin parchment — huge difference there — and whether or not the container is titanium or stainless steel. What a Monday. Dennis ~~ If your first move is brilliant, you’re in trouble. You don’t really know how to follow it; you’re frightened of ruining it. So, to make a mess is a good beginning. — Brian Eno On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Michael Connor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Kathy, > > Your use of the wayback machine there reminded me of something I was > thinking about as a side note to Lindsay's essay, the long-term survival of > research blogs that are published on third-party platforms like Tumblr. > > I used a delicious account a few years back for my research toward an > online exhibition, and my experience was in line with Lindsay's view of the > benefits of online social research. At some point, though, Delicious got > sold, I stopped logging in as often, and Yahoo! deleted the account. I > thought that was a bit ironic, given that Delicious founder Josh Schachter > has often proselytized about Twitter's link rot problem. > > Now I transcribe all of my research notes in ink using a quill pen on > goatskin, and bury them in the core of a 110,000 year old ice sheet in > Greenland. #protip > > Michael > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Kathy Rae Huffman < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Dear list, >> >> Barbara London actually did three important web projects, one in Japan, one >> in Russia and the other (mentioned by Packer) in China. All three >> demonstrated a curatorial strategy, that revealed new information, openly. >> These projects are relatively unrecognized by the media or art community. >> >> It might also be interesting to some younger curators to know about the >> project 'Siberian Deal' (1995) which has been archived at the Wayback >> Machine (although some functionality is lost): >> >> http://web.archive.org/web/20010407202315/http:/www.t0.or.at/~siberian/vrtei >> l.htm >> >> This project was a collaboration between Eva Wohlgemuth (artist, Vienna) >> and >> myself (curator), each taking on the important roles of the conceptual and >> practical organization for the project. >> >> It's a pre-blog, pre-research (as it is called today) information >> sharing/location-based project. It was supported by Public Netbase, Vienna, >> a now extinct, but important center for international internet culture in >> the 90s, which offered us free web hosting. It was a wonderful era of open >> source information sharing. Many of us continue this practice today. >> >> Cheers, Kathy >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Curating digital art - www.crumbweb.org >> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Randall Packer >> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2013 5:12 AM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] The Way We Share: Transparency in >> Curatorial Practice >> >> To add some history to curatorial research blogging (perhaps you know about >> this already), MoMA media curator Barbara London wrote a pre-blog research >> blog in 1997: Stir Fry, a Video Curator's Dispatches on China, which is >> archived on adaweb. >> >> http://www.adaweb.com/context/stir-fry/ >> >> >> >> >> On 3/8/13 3:44 PM, "Lindsay Howard" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> >Hey CRUMB, >> > >> >I wrote an essay for Hyperallergic's #TumblrArt series called "The Way >> >We >> >Share: Transparency in Curatorial >> >Practice<http://hyperallergic.com/66581/the-way-we-share-transparency-i >> >n-c >> >uratorial-practice/>", >> >discussing Paola Antonelli, Nicholas O'Brien, and Domenico Quaranta's >> >research blogs. If you have thoughts on this topic and/or examples of >> >other curators who are developing research this way, please email me or >> >leave a comment. >> > >> >Thanks, >> >-- >> >Lindsay Howard >> >@Lindsay_Howard <https://twitter.com/Lindsay_Howard> >> >http://lindsayhoward.net >> > > > > -- > Michael Connor > +1 646 620 7758