Subject: Viridian Note 00388: The Eerie Revival of Dead Media

Key concepts:

Dead Media Project, media studies, Steve Baldwin

Attention Conservation Notice:

Has nothing to do with environmental issues, even though a patch of California the size of Rhode Island is on fire.

The Dead Media Project died some time ago, although all the data is still there. (Whew!) Years of selfless labor! The world's greatest single repository on the subject of weird, gimmicky, extinct forms of communication! I worked on that thing for ages.
http://www.deadmedia.org

But Halloween rolls around — and lo, the DEAD WALK AGAIN!!

Suddenly a new, selfless martyr is willing to appoint himself editor of the Dead Media mailing list! It's Steve Baldwin of "Ghost Sites," the website where extinct websites live on (whether they want to or not)!
http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/

You can see from this that, if anything, Mr. Baldwin is overqualified for the job.
http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/scb.shtml

Here is his email. If you want to be on the revived Dead Media mailing list, let Steve Baldwin know. steve_baldwin*hotmail.com

Lord knows I will. If you want to contribute, even better. Needless to say, since Dead Media Project went into abeyance, media have been dying at unprecedented rates. There is
plenty to discuss in this line of research, and just maybe, someday somebody will
really write that "Dead Media Handbook."

Tangentially, I am informed that my net.art installation "Embrace the Decay" (a work blatantly infected by dead-media aesthetics) has broken all previous LAMOCA records for web art traffic, over at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
http://www.moca.org/museum/dg_detail.php?dgDetail=bsterling

A rare but precious example of Viridian design activists actually designing something! Hooray for us!