September 29, 2023, 5-6 pm ET. The Full Moon Exhumed Zoom honors 40 years of Billy X Curmano's 3-day burial act, Performance for the Dead. Original pallbearer, mourner, and gravedigger will participate, along with a reappearance by Curmano.

Join us to uncover the art history of some of the earliest instances of performance art and avant-garde art on the Internet, and engage in conversations with humanities professionals to better understand the genesis and evolution of these art forms. "Internet Firsts" aims to explore, compare, and contrast artists’ ideas and projects, past and the present followed by a Q&A session. This event emulates more than just a journey through time; it is an intergenerational crash course in the origins of online art, highlighting the pioneering days of the World Wide Web.

This event celebrates a new monograph by Jennifer Malvezzi and Flora Pitrolo which for the first time comprehensively chronicles their practice and sets it into today’s context, artist Roberto Taroni and the book’s authors show and discuss material from the Taroni-Cividin archive.

A virtual tour of the exhibition Dragging the archive: Re:Encounters with Franklin Furnace’s cyber beginnings by Elly Clarke, on view January 19, 2023 through April 6, 2023 onsite at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Library and online via Zoom

February 22, 2023, 7-8pm EST - Learn what constitutes a well-prepared grant application and ask questions about Franklin Furnace Fund programs from our staff. The session will be followed by a Q&A.

A virtual tour of the exhibition Dragging the archive: Re:Encounters with Franklin Furnace’s cyber beginnings by Elly Clarke, on view January 19, 2023 through April 6, 2023 onsite at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Library and online via Zoom

Halona Hilbertz’s 1998 “Pseudo Studio Walk” took place at the Manhattan loft of Pseudo.com, an early streaming content service. For 50 minutes, Hilbertz walked and ran back and forth between the camera and a far wall.

An in-person interactive workshop led by Pratt Institute Archivist Cristina Fontánez Rodríguez on finding meaning in the archive. Working with and around objects highlighted through the current Live at the Library exhibition Dragging the Archive, participants are invited to look beyond the content of an archive in order to focus on its structure, context, and significance.

Franklin Furnace Archive was excited to introduce the 2022-23 FF FUND recipients at the annual event Past, Present & Future. Each artist described their newly funded projects and explained the influences, thought-processes, and practices culminating in their eventual performances. Emcees Martha Wilson and Harley Spiller hosted this unique annual opportunity to listen to and engage with emerging performance artists of the highest caliber.

The Serious Business of Doll Play: Alva Rogers, Dr. Paulette Richards & the Legacy of Lenon Holder Hoyte was a free month-long program in three main stages: a) new and unlimited public online access to an excerpt from the script of artist Alva Rogers’ the doll plays with Alva’s videotaped introduction created for this project; b) one 90-minute interactive teleconference conversation with artist Alva Rogers, humanities expert Dr. Paulette Richards, and the general public, with closed captioning, on United Nations International Day for Tolerance, November 16, 2022, 6-7:30 pm est; and c) the launch of permanent archival documentation of the program at FranklinFurnace.org