Alexander Rose is the Executive Director of The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. Hired as the first employee of The Foundation in February of 01997, Alexander has been an artist in residence at Silicon Graphics Inc., a project manager for Shamrock Communications, and a founding partner of Inertia Labs. Alexander has attended the Art Center College of Design and graduated with a bachelor of arts honors degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Industrial Design in 01995. As the director of Long Now, Alexander has facilitated projects such as the 10,000 Year Clock with Danny Hillis, The Rosetta Project, Long Bets, Seminars About Long Term Thinking, Long Server and others. Alexander shares several design patents on the 10,000 Year Clock with Danny Hillis, the first prototype of which is in the Science Museum of London.

At transmediale.10 Alexander Rose will introduce The Long Now Foundation, their projects as well as contextualizing long term projects throughout history.  He will be discussing design of objects and social systems for extreme longevity.

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