Monday, July 7, 2014

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Introduction Dragan Espenschied

Welcome, Dragan!

I look forward to continuing here the conversation we began at the Dove Parlour in New York.

You can go to http://yasminlist.blogspot.com to catch up on the discussion and jump right in; your perspective will be a welcome addition to an already lively conversation.

Richard Rinehart

> On Jul 7, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Dragan Espenschied <dragan.espenschied@rhizome.org> wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> my name is Dragan Espenschied, I am leading the digital conservation program at
> Rhizome in New York since April 2014.
>
> Here's my short bio from <http://rhizome.org/about>:
>
> Since 2011, Dragan Espenschied has been restoring and culturally analyzing 1TB
> of Geocities data. From 2012-13, he lead on a renowned research project to
> conceptually and technically integrate the Transmediale Festival's collection of
> CD-ROM art into the Emulation as a Service framework, "bwFLA". In 2013, with the
> University of Freiburg, Espenschied helped preserve a personal computer from the
> legacy of media philosopher Vilem Flusser. His publications include the
> influential reader "Digital Folklore", and the papers "Large-Scale Curation and
> Presentation of CD-ROM Art", "Emulation in the Context of Digital Art and
> Cultural Heritage", and "An Architecture for Community-based Curation and
> Presentation of Complex Digital Objects". In his artistic career, Espenschied
> focuses on the historization of Digital Culture from the perspective of computer
> users rather than hackers, developers or "inventors" and together with net art
> pioneer Olia Lialina has created a significant body of work concerned with how
> to represent and write a culture-centric history of the networked age.
>
>
> Maybe it is also of interest that as a musician I am using legacy computer
> systems to compose and perform.
>
>
> Hope to have an interesting discussion with you all.
>
> Bests,
> Dragan
>
>
> <http://1x-upon.com/~despens/>
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