Head of Internet Typing at San Francscio Airport Museum (USA)
Introduced by and Q&A with Seb Chan (ACMI)
We only have so much time in our lives for foundational myths and the effort it takes to re-enforce them before they become trite, tiresome and ultimately tuned out.
Stories about absence are a hard sell.In the grand scheme of things we may need to accept that the internet is not as important as some other things which we hold to be inalienable truths. It is still worth understanding what the internet has changed, what those changes have made possible and that the web, in particular, represents a deliberate and considered reaction to the past rather than some comforting platitude like the sun rising every day or a broken clock being right twice a day.
In a moment which every aspect of our lives can often feel like a merry-go-round of baiting-and-switching this is a talk about the sensibilities and motivations, beyond the day-to-day tactical strategies, necessary for promoting and nurturing the scaffolding which might allow the whole notion of cultural heritage to outlast the reluctance and fickleness of the present.
It’s not magic - finding our way back to “just f*cking do it” from “move fast and break things”