History

Maureen Vance records her first binaural pieces for public radio in Pasadena, with microphones worn in her own ears.

Vance and Gordon Pruitt found Sense/Net in a rented garage in Glassell Park. The name is two halves of the plan: her recordings, and the cable network on which he had bought them a late-night hour. Cassettes go on sale by mail in June.

The first first-person video, recorded on tape with a camera worn at the brow. The closed-fist stop signal is used on set for the first time.

The Library opens in Ashworth, Kansas, in galleries leased from a working salt mine. Clifford Ostheimer is its first archivist.

The Sense/Net Home Player, a tape deck with a head-mounted viewer, sells 61,000 units in its first year and 212,000 in all.

Sense/Net Interactive, a research group, begins recording long working sessions with people at the top of their trades.

The Turing Registry begins licensing. The Library’s construct is one of its forty-one founding filings.

The construct is retired at its own request. Sense/Net Interactive closes. The mine company stops working the eastern galleries, and the Library buys them.

Headquarters move to a 1931 cold-storage building on Tessaro Street, downtown.

The Library begins depositing copies of retired products and recordings with Lazarus.

The employee share plan begins. The Library asks customers to send back old cassettes, and they do.

The Consent Standard is published. Solveig Ellingboe succeeds Clifford Ostheimer at the Library.

Sense/Net buys three stages in Sun Valley. Delia Sorensen becomes president of the studio.

Fullfield is introduced. Gordon Pruitt dies in August, aged 71.

A private investment firm takes a minority stake.

Delia Sorensen becomes chief executive. Maureen Vance becomes chair emerita.

Version 4 of the Consent Standard: performers may withdraw a title after release.

Fullfield Ambient. No member of the public appears in a new title without a release.

The Kestrel Hill catalogue is acquired. The reading room reopens after restoration.

Fullfield Ambient 2. The first transparency report.

The original cut, one step away in every title. Stage 6 opens in Sun Valley.