Press
Various write-ups on projects I've been involved with, primarily Telidon art restoration, our historic computer collection,
and the digitization of the Colonist newspaper.
Weekly Dispatches From the Frontlines of World Literature [review of Hypertext & Art exhibition] - MARGENTO, Asymptote, June 28, 2024. And a followup mention July 26, 2024>.
Remember Tomorrow: A Telidon Story [review] - Adam Lauder, Esse, Sept 2023
Rob Ferguson: Paying it forward in an obsolete world - Giving to UVic, August 2022.
Digital archaeology frames national art exhibition - The Ring, University of Victoria, June 3, 2021.
Announcing the Telidon Art Project - InterAccess, Apr 19, 2021.
The many passions of Librarian John Durno - Zehra Abrar, UVic Libraries, Sept 10, 2020. All my passions appear to be computing-related.
Obsolete Technology Finds a New Generation of Fans at UVic Library - Travis Paterson, Oak Bay News, March 4, 2020. Also picked up by Saanich News, Victoria News & Library Journal INFODocket.
12-year project complete: Online newspaper archive covers Victoria's history - Richard Watts, Victoria Times-Colonist, June 9, 2019
Expanded Colonist archive offers 1960s history at your fingertips - Richard Watts, Victoria Times-Colonist, Jul 29, 2018
This Canadian dial-up art is older than the internet, and was long thought to be lost — until now - Chris Hampton, CBC, May 15, 2018
UVic's show of artist's work details a complex genius - Robert Amos, Victoria Times-Colonist, Aug 17, 2016
Proto-Digital Art by One of Victoria's Leading Artists - Robert Amos, Whitehot Magazine, Jun 2016
Retro artworks, high-tech lace - Robert Amos, Victoria Times-Colonist, Mar 6 2016
When many minds start thinking alike - Dave Obee, Victoria Times-Colonist, Jan 4, 2009
Where Librarians Go To Hack, Roy Tennant, Library Journal Nov 15 2003.
All about the Hackfest held at Access 2003, which Mark Jordan and I co-organized
back when Hackfests at Library conferences were a novel idea. (This was two and a half years before the first Code4Lib conference).
Roy also made a short video documentary. Roy's original video is here but I've taken the liberty of posting a re-encoded and enlarged MP4 version.
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