arpanet

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. 

Vol. I
Published on 9 October 2010
ARPANET Test 1975 with
Marcel Broodthaers, Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan & Edward Said
Presented in conjunction with OVERSCORE, a project curated by ACAF for Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain


Vol. II
Published on 14 March 2011
ARPANET Test June 1976 with
Samir Amin, Steve Biko, Francis Fukuyama & Minoru Yamasaki
Presented as ACAFs contribution to MARKER at Art Dubai 2011;
The second edition features guest collaborator Khwezi Gule, a curator, artist, and writer based in Johannesburg, South Africa.


Vol. III
Published on 1 November 2011
ARPANET Test March 1976 with
Joseph Beuys, Juan Downey, Rosalind Krauss & Henry Moore
Presented as a contribution to the project/publication The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict

by Bassam El Baroni, Jeremy Beaudry and Nav Haq

 

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