# Institutional affiliation and provenance sources

Checked September 27, 2026. Scope: discovery and inspection of public archives and documentation, not a complete artist-record import. This is a dated research snapshot; subsequent implementation is documented in CONNECTIONS.md.

| Source | Data useful to The Vibes Are People | Access and qualification |
|---|---|---|
| Rhizome ArtBase | Credited artists, multiple authors, collective membership, artwork/software relationships, preservation variants and accession data | Documented Wikibase/RDF database and SPARQL query interface. Documentation includes education lookup by federation with Wikidata; education pulled from Wikidata is not independently verified by Rhizome. Query results not executed in this pass. |
| Franklin Furnace Events Archive | Artist participation and contribution, event dates, project descriptions, photographs, video and ephemera | Public searchable archive; archive home reached. Verify relationship in individual records rather than assuming all participants received grants. |
| Franklin Furnace FUND recipients | Funding-program relationships and project descriptions, including internet and live networked art | Official recipient directory inspected. The Future of the Present began in 1998 with Pseudo Programs and merged with the performance fund in 2008. |
| Franklin Furnace / MoMA Artists' Books Vertical Files | Artist files, exhibitions, correspondence, item/page metadata and digitized documents | Official search help documents filters by creator, folder name/type, date and item category. Strong documentary provenance route; not a ready-made affiliation graph. |
| Ars Electronica Prix Archive | Award/project/artist/year/category relationships; winning-project texts and audiovisual documentation | Official archive describes submissions since 1987. A submission alone is not an award; keep status distinct. |
| ISEA Symposium Archives | Dated presentations, artist statements, papers, bios, collaborations and institutional context | Classic archive + extended archive. Official notice says new symposia from March 1, 2025 appear only in the extended archive. |

## Direct links

- ArtBase query documentation: https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/Query
- ArtBase query interface: https://query.artbase.rhizome.org/
- ArtBase user guide: https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/User_Guide (indexed; direct extraction failed in this pass)
- ArtBase FAQ: https://artbase.rhizome.org/wiki/FAQ
- Franklin Furnace archive description: https://franklinfurnace.org/archives-publications/events-archive/
- Franklin Furnace database: https://archives.franklinfurnace.org/home
- Franklin Furnace funding recipients: https://franklinfurnace.org/grants-and-funding/recipients/
- Vertical Files search documentation: https://franklinfurnace.org/vf-search-help/
- Vertical Files project overview: https://franklinfurnace.org/?p=22813
- Prix Archive: https://archive.aec.at/prix/
- Sample inspected Prix record: https://archive.aec.at/prix/290622/ — Nicolas Gourault, Unknown Label, Honorary Mention 2024; includes a residency/support credit.
- ISEA Classic: https://www.isea-archives.org/
- ISEA Extended: https://www.isea-symposium-archives.org/

## Concrete Franklin Furnace research candidates

Official recipient directory contains:
- Andrea Polli, Rapid Fire: real-time eye-image data translated into sound and moving image, performed live and via netcast. Candidate for an interaction/data-to-sound branch; not proof of invention of a generic technique.
- Diane Ludin, i-BPE (i-Biology Patent Engine): interactive collaging of patent information. Candidate for network art/data systems, with no specific recipe assignment yet.

These are documentary leads with project descriptions. Exact award year and program for each must be read in the surrounding recipient-year grouping before adding dated funding claims.

## A particularly relevant institutional network

ISEA's homepage documents the 2025 Workshop on New Media Art Archiving at ZKM, with participation from Rhizome, ADA, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, FILE and other archives. Its topics include connecting people, graph databases, and archival metadata. This is a documented research community aligned with the project's questions, not evidence of any partnership with this project. The 2025 workshop is historical, not a current open call.

## Import model recommended

Keep separate, source-linked statements: person → created work; person → collaborated on work; person → resident at institution; person/work → funded by program; work → presented at event; work variant → preserved by archive. Attach date, source URL/record ID, supporting text, checked date, and verification status. Do not turn shared exhibition participation into collaboration or an archival holding into sponsorship.

Rhizome's preservation provenance describes the history and versions of digital objects. Our technique lineage is a related but separate research claim: a named original paper, source code, artist account or documented teaching contribution must establish that connection.

## Leads with access limitations

Archive of Digital Art (ADA) and V2 are relevant further leads. ADA's main page did not load through the web reader; search indexed its archive records. V2's current archive-history page required JavaScript. Neither was fully validated as a usable current database during this pass. MIT Press books are useful contextual sources but are not a unified artist-affiliation database.

## Future Franklin Furnace book source (user-provided lead)

*Back to the Present: Fifty Years of Free Expression with Franklin Furnace* is a potential archival source. Yury reports that the forthcoming book includes his work. Not independently verified, read, mined or used to establish graph edges in the Processing pass. See `PROCESSING-LINEAGE.md` for the source boundary.