What Franklin Furnace Learned from Presenting and Producing Live Art on the Internet, from 1996 to Now

The year 1996 saw the dramatic transformation of the artists' organization Franklin Furnace from a site-based entity to a conveyor of live on-line art. From early experiments in "live" Internet video to public art drawing on wireless technology, the author traces the development of a nascent art practice through its both groundbreaking and idiosyncratic formative years.