Digital Media Archaeology in Practice

Workshop leaders

About Ben Fino-Radin

Ben Fino-Radin is a New York, NY based media archaeologist specializing in the preservation of digital contemporary art and culture. Presently, Fino-Radin serves as Digital Repository Manager at the Museum of Modern Art's department of conservation, and as Adjunct Professor in NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. In private practice Fino-Radin has advised museums and artists, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, artist Cory Arcangel, and the art collective JODI. Fino-Radin holds an MS and MFA from Pratt Institute in Library and Information Science, and Digital Art respectively, and is an alumnus of Rhizome at the New Museum where he formerly served as Digital Conservator.

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About Vincent Leclaire and Silicium

Vincent Leclaire is a member of the Toulouse based French computer collectors and enthusiasts association Silicium. Silicium is a French association with the mission to keep and preserve old computers and game consoles to show them to today and tomorrow's audience. Its member hold a collection of thousands of pieces renewed and enriched each year. For more than twenty years, Silicium is collecting and building an inventory of this huge collection of machines and documentation.

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