Article
The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Preserving New Media Art for Posterity
Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies
(2015)
Abstract
Preserving works of creative expression in the digital age is notoriously difficult due to issues of technological obsolescence, the intangibility of dynamic media, and the interactive nature of digital art. This is of marked interest to libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions given the limitations of traditional forms of preservation that rely heavily on the storage of physical forms. The Re-Gift, a work of new media art by Buffalo-based artist Liz Rywelski, exemplifies many of the complexities of these emerging formats. This essay examines one of the potential approaches to preserving this type of work, with an eye toward methods that could be extrapolated to rescuing other works of new media.
Keywords
- new media art,
- variable media art,
- interactive art,
- preservation,
- conservation,
- Variable Media Questionnaire
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall October 30, 2015
DOI
10.5334/jcms.1021227
Citation Information
Jennifer Bonnet. "The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Preserving New Media Art for Posterity" Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Vol. 13 Iss. 1 (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/bonnet/5/