Jon Ippolito is an artist, writer, and curator. He worked as an Associate Curator at the Guggenheim, where in 1993 he curated Virtual Reality: An Emerging Medium, and subsequent exhibitions that explore the intersection of contemporary art and new media. In 2002 Jon joined the faculty of the University of Maine's New Media Department. He is particularly interested in the parallel between digital art and Minimalist and Conceptual art, a parallel that led him to join others in a rethinking of preserving art called the variable media paradigm. http://forging-the-future.net