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Opening the Source of Art by John Bell

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/296.php — Published Monday, February 15th, 2010
ThoughtMesh"We need not destroy the past; it is gone. At any moment it might reappear and seem to be and be the present. Would it be a repetition? Only if we thought we owned it, but since we don't, it is free and so are we." John Cage, Lecture on Nothing <continued>

Accommodating the Unpredictable by Jon Ippolito

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/301.php — Published Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.This text introduces the <continued>

Case Study -- Grahame Weinbren and Roberta Friedman, The Erl King, 1982-85 by Jeff Rothenberg

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/261.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.The following are excerpts from a <continued>

Case Study -- Mark Napier, net.flag, 2002 by Jon Ippolito, Mark Napier

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/266.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.The following conversation merges <continued>

Case Study -- Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Public Opinion) by Nancy Spector

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/272.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. The following are excerpts from <continued>

Case Study -- Ken Jacobs, Bitemporal Vision: The Sea, 1994 by Jon Gartenberg

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/253.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.The following are excerpts from <continued>

The Challenge of Variable Media by John Hanhardt

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/252.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis introductory text by John Hanhardt is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.

Case Study -- Nam June Paik, TV Garden, 1974 by John Hanhardt

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/271.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. The following are excerpts from <continued>

Reality Check by Caitlin Jones

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/262.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. This text by Caitlin Jones outlines <continued>

Case Study -- Meg Webster, Stick Spiral, 1986 by Carol Stringari

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/269.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.The following are excerpts from <continued>

Beyond "Conservative" by Carol Stringari

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/270.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.In this text Guggenheim Conservator <continued>

Perspectives -- Walker Art Center by Steve Dietz

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/259.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.In this text by Steve Dietz (formerly <continued>

Perspectives -- Rhizome.org by Alena Williams

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/273.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.  Williams' text outlines the <continued>

Perspectives -- Performance Art Festival+Archives by Thomas Mulready

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/265.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.This text by Thomas Mulready from <continued>

Perspectives -- Franklin Furnace Archive Inc. by Jessica Ludwig

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/264.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.This text by Jessica Ludwig from <continued>

Perspectives -- Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive by Richard Rinehart

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/267.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.Richard Rinehardt discusses the work <continued>

The Goals of the Variable Media Network by Alain Depocas

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/258.php — Published Sunday, January 31st, 2010
ThoughtMeshThis text is from the publication Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach, published in 2003 by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology.This text by Alain Depocas outlines <continued>

Digital Decay by Bruce Sterling

http://thoughtmesh.net/ publish/299.php — Published Friday, January 22nd, 2010
ThoughtMeshOriginally delivered as the keynote address for Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on Variable Media at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on March 30, 2001, this bellwether on the vulnerability of digital media to technical obsolescence was <continued>

From "Here and Then" to "There and Now" by Jon Ippolito

http://vectors.usc.edu/ thoughtmesh/publish/199 .php — Published Thursday, August 21st, 2008
ThoughtMeshThis essay is an expanded version of a presentation at the 2007 DOCAM Summit, Daniel P. Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Montreal, 26 September 2007.

Digital Performance by Jon Ippolito

http://vectors.usc.edu/ thoughtmesh/publish/28. php — Published Thursday, August 21st, 2008
ThoughtMeshDigital performance is a genre whose ephemerality makes it extremely vulnerable to obsolescence and oblivion. Yet in this essay Jon Ippolito argues that the process-oriented character of digital performance makes it a better model for the long-term <continued>