<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "></span></blockquote>In the hope of bringing some clarity to this issue of shelf life might we not want to differentiate between media as a tool, a mode of production, or a means of delivery and then ask what is being preserved - content, form - effect, or form - material object </div><div>In most cases sound/light can be transcribed - if it is deemed worthy of preserving</div><div>objects if cared for tend to last for considerable periods of time</div><div>history as a material condition is another form of preservation - which till now has required talismans and mnemonic devices as a means to maintain a record of necessity - if Benjamin and Baudrillard among others are right the age of the material fetish has given way to that of information storage, signifiers without a fixed signified and simulacra of the real - that within a world defined by a universal media ( Kittler) a things representation may replace the thing and as such always in some format always already be available - consequently, is this thread about longevity or merely bringing the new into line with the present and as such fettering its development by having it fulfill past rather than future demands </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">saul ostrow</span></blockquote></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Chair, Visual Arts and Technologies</span></font></div><div style="font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Interim Head, Sculpture and Installation</span></font></div><div style="font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; "><a href="mailto:sostrow@gate.cia.edu">sostrow@gate.cia.edu</a></span></span></div><div style="font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; ">EXPECT EVERYTHING / FEAR NOTHING</span></span></div><div style="font-family: AvantGarde; font-size: 14px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></body></html>