prehysteries of new media: >> dead media handbook, Bruce Sterling

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this blog is nina wenhart's collection of resources on the various histories of new media art. it consists mainly of non or very little edited material i found flaneuring on the net, sometimes with my own annotations and comments, sometimes it's also textparts i retyped from books that are out of print.

it is also meant to be an additional resource of information and recommended reading for my students of the prehystories of new media class that i teach at the school of the art institute of chicago in fall 2008.

the focus is on the time period from the beginning of the 20th century up to today.

2008-01-12

>> dead media handbook, Bruce Sterling

http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/index.htm (dead link, now got to: http://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Dead_Media_Project/)

"The concept for the Dead Media Webpage was first concieved by science writer Bruce Sterling. In a past issue of Boing Boing magazine, Mr Sterling posted the Dead Media Manifesto and asked for help in creating a virtual library dedicated to past forms of media. This request was also made public in a speech on dead media at the International Symposium on Electronic Arts in Montreal, Canada in September, 1995.

In developing this site, we, the students of the Vancouver Film School-Multimedia, first had to define what the term media involved. It was our belief that the word itself implies the notion of communication. Therefore, anything that was once used to relay a message would be applicable. It is our hope that in the future the site will be expanded to encompass other forms as well.

For those interested in finding out more about some of the items listed here, a complete set of the Dead Media Working Notes (see: http://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Dead_Media_Project/dead_media.notes and http://griffin.multimedia.edu/~deadmedia/notes.html) are available. There is also a Dead Media Collector's List for those in search of buying or selling various dead media. "

http://www.deadmedia.org/ (offline, for a description of the project, visit: http://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Dead_Media_Project/compu_collecting_sterling.article

http://www.deadmedia.org/modest-proposal.html (offline, for a backup of the proposal, see: http://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Dead_Media_Project/dmp_sterling.proposal)

Bruce Sterling on "The Life and Death of Media", Speech at Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA '95, Montreal Sept 19 1995: http://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/Bruce_Sterling/Dead_Media_Project/media_life_death_sterling.speech

all links last updated in October 2009, nw