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October 31, 2005
I got an email about this last week:
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center presents:
The 1980s: An Internet Conference
October 31 - November 13, 2005
I remember the online symposium they did back in 2001 (less than a month after 9/11). A diverse group of “culture workers” weighed in on the topic at hand and even when people went off on long tangents, mostly about terrorism, I found the whole project pretty interesting.
It’s kind of funny to think how much things have changed since ‘01. I didn’t have internet service at home and my big desk top was an e machine (a.k.a playschool’s “my first computer”). I had ordered a few books on amazon but I was still very hesitant about doing stuff online - but the idea of a virtual symposium seemed so COOOOOOOL. In fall 2001 I had just started an internship at a swank museum – I had my own computer and cubicle and I basically spent that second week looking at the conference online. I got pretty good at “looking like I was working” while I was really just reading though all the symposium commentary. Actually, maybe things haven’t changed so much – I still just look like I’m working when I'm sitting at the computer …
Posted by lk at October 31, 2005 09:02 AM