[spectre] The ARPANET Dialogues Vol. IV

[Bassam el Baroni]

The ARPANET Dialogues Vol. IV
 

ARPANET Test
April 1976

with Jim Henson, Ayn Rand, Sidney
Nolan & Yoko Ono


Published on 4 March 2012. Presented as a contribution to
Roundtable Issue 1, a journal for the 9th Gwangju Biennale. Featuring guest contributor Natalya
Pinchuk, an artist based in Pittsburgh,
 USA.


Background:
17 April 1976 – The transcript presented here records a
conversation between four figures from the broad spectrum of culture: puppeteer
Jim Henson; Russian-American writer, philosopher and playwright Ayn Rand;
painter Sidney Nolan; and artist and musician Yoko Ono. A few months after the
fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War,
The Agency’s tests with the ARPANET convened these four individuals, each with
a distinct sense of, as well as the potential means for, a competing
world-view. These individuals, who cross different hemispheres, were to help
with considerations towards the viability of broadly implementing Article 21 of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.


Go to this link to read:

http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/vol-iv/4/


About the ARPANET Dialogues Project:

In the period between 1975 and 1979, the Agency convened a
rare series of conversations between an eccentric cast of characters
representing a wide range of perspectives within the contemporary social,
political and cultural milieu. The ARPANET Dialogues is a serial
document which archives these conversations. Even more unusual perhaps was the
specific circumstances of the conversation: taking advantage of recent
developments in telecommunications technology, the conversation was conducted
via an instant messaging application networked by computers plugged into
ARPANET, the United States Department of Defense’s experimental computer
network. All participants in the conversation were given special access to
terminals connected to ARPANET, many of them located in US military
installations or DOD-sponsored research institutions around the world. Excerpts
from each session will be published as they become available.


The ARPANET Dialogues is an ongoing research project by
Bassam El Baroni, Jeremy Beaudry and Nav Haq.




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