Conservation of Media Arts and Networks: Aesthetic and Ethical Considerations

In the conservation of media arts, one is dealing with artworks that are immaterial and ephemeral: process-based experiences or performances whose entire significance lies precisely in the relationship or the contact the work allows to establish between spectators or with the environment. And in the realm of art as in other domains, one knows that all interaction is dynamic, that it is impossible to maintain a relationship unchanged, or to reproduce one that is exactly the same. The author presents three principal challenges facing the artist, the art market and the art historian.

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