Dear list members,
Please find below information about a talk at Salford University this Weds 19/10, second floor lecture theatre, Adelphi House, 4.15pm.
Its the first talk of the Salford CCM seminar series, full details to be announced shortly,
Michael
Dr Toni Sant
Dr Toni Sant is Director of Research at the University of Hull's School of Arts and New Media in Scarborough. He has also lectured about performance and new media at New York University and the University of Malta. For more see http://www.tonisant.com <https://staffwebmail.salford.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.tonisant.com/>
Preserving a History of the Future:
Archiving the Avant-Garde in a Digital Environment at Franklin Furnace
Established since 1976, Franklin Furnace is a renowned New York-based arts
organization whose mission is to preserve, document, and present works of
avant-garde art by emerging artists - particularly those whose works may be
vulnerable due to institutional neglect or politically unpopular content.
Drawing on his book Franklin Furnace & the Spirit of the Avant-Garde: A
History of the Future (Intellect, 2010), Toni Sant discusses how new
technology raises new issues in regard to preservation and archiving for
Franklin Furnace. Aside from the issues that arise during the creation and
primary dissemination of works on the Internet, long-term distribution
arrangements and digital-rights management are relevant for making the art and its documentation available on demand as part of a long-term plan for
preservation and dissemination. Identifying the best preservation strategies
is the first step, but there are also intellectual-property matters to
consider. Such issues have become major concerns for Franklin Furnace since
the late 1990s and it has not only braced itself to tackle them but also
pushed itself into the frontline of finding solutions for them, along with
others who have similar concerns.
Dr Michael Goddard
Lecturer in Media Studies
School of Media, Music and Performance
University of Salford
Adelphi Building
Peru St
Salford M3 6EQ
Reviews Editor of Studies in East European Cinema (SEEC)
Member of the Publications Committee of the Network for European Cinema and Media Studies (NECS)
Author of Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism and the Subversion of Form, Purdue, 2010
Co-Editor with Dr Benjamin Halligan of Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics, Ashgate, 2010
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