Dragan Espenschied is a media artist, digital conservator and 8-bit musician living in New York. As an artist, Espenschied focuses on the historicisation of Digital Culture from the perspective of computer users. Together with net art pioneer Olia Lialina, he created a significant body of work about writing a culture-centric history of the networked age. Since 2011, they together have been restoring and analysing the deleted online community GeoCities. Espenschied worked with the transmediale festival’s archive and the Vilem Flusser Archive. Since April 2014, he is leading the Digital Conservation Program at Rhizome. See Dragan’s full bio here.

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