Talk:Bureau of Inverse Technology

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I'd like to take a little time to justify the validity of having a Bureau of inverse technology (BIT) page on wikipedia and I will use some of this material to establish the Notability in the entry.

BIT clearly satisfies the first criteria of Notability, namely The company or corporation has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the company or corporation itself, and I believe that the citations below satisfy both the non-triviality and the independence requirements.

The work of BIT has been documented and discussed in a number of articles and pages on non-BIT web sites, including:

Media Art Net - http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/society/22/ - short article discussing various artistic initiatives utilizing consumer electronics for surveillance purposes.

Piet Zwart Instituut - http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/krich/ - includes a statement from Kate Rich, a BIT engineer, describing her three month research fellowship at the Instituut

Video Date Bank - http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?BUREAUOFIN - descriptions of BIT and videos of some of their work, including a flight on the BIT Plane.

New York Times - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E2DD153CF93AA35754C0A96F958260 - Short article describing BIT and their Suicide Box.

Technology in the 1990s - http://tech90s.walkerart.org/nj/transcript/nj_08.html - a transcript of a lecture given by BIT founder Natalie Jeremijenko at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Also, BIT have contributed to numerous exhibitions, including:

Whitney Biennial - http://www.whitney.org/www/2006biennial/artists.php?artist=Jeremijenko_Natalie - an exhibition of Natalie's bird perches plus an audio clip of Natalie describing this work.

Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation - http://www.indexfoundation.se/Default2.asp?id=3&a=29 - Exhibition held at the Foundation, 16 February - 17 March 2002

While not always a perfect indicator of Notability, a Google search for 'Bureau of Inverse Technology' located 12,700 page hits.

I plan to remove the deletion template and will improve the article and bring it up to the standards expected by its readers and, quite rightly, demanded by its editors.

JohnKnutson 15:37, 26 December 2006 (UTC)