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'The Current // Permanence" is our second salon gathering, installed for members on May 23rd with moderator Ben Fino-Radin, a time-based media conservator and founder of Small Data Industries.

Introduction from Ben Fino-Radin:

Throughout centuries, artists have engaged with the impulse to memorialize, to be remembered, and the impulse to collect, archive, and preserve. If one looks closely enough, one sees however that permanence is really just change in slow motion. Nothing is permanent. Nothing lasts forever.

What may art teach us about long term thinking, and the seemingly …