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A report from this conference that discussed strategies of change and survival in our ever shifting media landscape.

It's coming, it's here. The digitization of our media world. Sorting through the techno-booster hype to neo-luddite hand-wringing is like dealing with earthquake preparedness here in the Bay Area. We're told that the Next Big One will strike within the next thirty years, but we can't know when or how close to home. Clearly inevitable, but hard to think about coherently on a daily basis. There is a certain amount of denial at work too, but we try to prepare the best we can, both practically and intuitively. The digitization of our media world is similar.

I recently relocated from rural Pennsylvania to San Francisco, taking on the exciting role of executive director at San Francisco Cinematheque. Obviously, this is a huge geographical change, but it is also a return, as I was involved with the Bay Area media arts community from 1974 until 1990. The renewal of my presence here has provoked many thoughts for me about changes in this community. A recent Meredith Monk performance shifted my thinking about change to the concept of “impermanence,” which conjures images of flow, movement, and transition as the way of life.