Fred Forest

Article summary

Fred Forest (born July 6, 1933) is a French new media artist. He makes use of video, photography, the printed press, mail, radio, television, telephone, telematics, and the internet in a wide range of installations, performances, and public interventions that explore both the ramifications and potential of media space. He was a cofounder of both the Sociological Art Collective (1974) and the Aesthetics of Communication movement (1983). Forest has taken part in the Biennale of Venice (1976) and the Documenta of Kassel (1977, 1987) and his work has won awards at the São Paulo Art Biennial (1973) and the Festival of Electronic Arts of Locarno (1995). In 2004, Forest's archives, including his video works, were added to the collection of the Institut national de l'audiovisuel of France. A retrospective of his work was held at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia in 2007. The holder of a state doctorate in the humanities from the Sorbonne (his 1985 thesis committee included Abraham Moles, Frank Popper, and Jean Duvignaud), Forest has also taught on the faculty of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art, Cergy-Pontoise; the University of Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne; and the University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis.…

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1. date of birth: 1933-07-06 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of birth: 1933-07-06 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. date of formation: 1983 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. publication date: 1972-01-12 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
5. publication date: 1985 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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6. The record states that the publication date is "1985". What evidence would count against this claim?
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8. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

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1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364283173