Launched with a saccharine smile in the midst of the Vietnam war, the 1964 fair was conceived as an expedient alliance between the city's controversial "master builder" Robert Moses and dream-conjuror Walt Disney, funded by a plethora of corporate sponsors.
Once the fair idea was conceived, several sites were considered.
The fair was originally conceived in 1955 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, but it soon became clear that that date was too ambitious.
Although the Moving Image fair wasn't originally conceived to market such novelties, Magdalena Sawon, owner and director of Chelsea's Postmasters Gallery, decided Vine was nevertheless ready for prime time.
She and her brother conceived the fair in response to a request from the Seward Park Cooperatives, the sprawling redbrick towers built by labor and trade unions in the 1960s, where Ms. Pak has shared a two-bedroom unit with Suhyun, 32, for six years.
Only her acquaintance Philip Sterling is disgusted by the deceit and hypocrisy that pervade Washington, which he views as "the maddest Vanity Fair one could conceive," a "feverish, unhealthy atmosphere in which lunacy would be easily developed".
The fair's director, AA Bronson, is an artist who is the former president of Printed Matter, a nonprofit organization devoted to publications by artists, and who conceived the original fair in 2005.
I was at Black Market, an alternative program during New York's week of art fairs like Frieze and NADA, conceived by artist James Allister Sprang, who raps under the name GAZR, and DIS Magazine's Marvin Jordan.
The Top 40 Intel finalists, including Eugene and Emmanuelle, converged on Washington last March for the mother of all high school science fairs, the Science Talent Search, which was originally conceived by an advertising and public relations executive at Westinghouse in 1942.
The award has been running since 1978, when it was conceived at the Frankfurt book fair and given to Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice.
