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.
March 4, 2020
'Heart of UVic' at 60: McPherson Library still plays key role despite digital advances - Dave Obee, Times Colonist, Dec 1, 2024. [Historic Computing Lab featured in photo].
Hypertext and Art at Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2024 - UVic Libraries, What's New: Summer 2024
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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