Like a Wave Upon the Sand: Digital Preservation of Variable Media Art

There are as many different kinds of new media art as there are artists. New media art differs from traditional art in its non-physicality: instead of using paint and canvas to convey ideas, new media artists might use databases and CRT monitors; instead of modelling their subjects in clay, they might use computer programs to model data. Conventionally, preservation is seen as a way to fix an object’s physicality. When an object is neither physical nor fixable, however, this conventional view must itself change. (...)

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