by Rea McNamara on May 10, 2016
An important internet art archive will soon shutter. Turbulence.org, an online project that has commissioned new net art and networked hybrid artworks since the mid-1990s, announced over the weekend it would be going offline on December 31, 2016.
According to the announcement — made via a mass email to past and present artists, as well as in a public Facebook update — the organization can no longer sustain the operating costs needed to maintain its online archive.
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by Rea McNamara on May 3, 2016
For over thirty years, my dad was a pilot for a Canadian commercial airline carrier. He retired when I was in high school — coincidentally enough, shortly after 9/11, which he said took all the fun out of flying — so I have many memories of flying on a standby pass, thanks to his seniority. (He ended his career as a captain flying the 767.)
There was always a fraught element to this way of travelling: my dad would hawkishly survey the loads online to ensure there were enough empty seats, and my mom forced my two older brothers and I to wear business attire (company rule!) in fear a ticket agent would deem any of us unfit to fly. No jeans, no casual shoes, no open-toed sandals. (At YYC, the flight code for Calgary International Airport, one of my brothers wasn’t allowed to get on the flight for wearing hiking shoes, so him and my dad had to go to a store to buy dress shoes to get on the flight. Canadians! We’re friendly, but also so anally uptight.)
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