Preservation of digital art

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Tech and articles about the preservation of digital and algorithmic art

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Open sourcing MoMA's digital vault
https://web.archive.org/web/20150805115404/moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/05/13/open-sourcing-momas-digital-vault/
uses https://github.com/artefactual/binder

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Digital access and preservation. Canadian professional services and software development company
https://github.com/artefactual
https://www.artefactual.com/

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MoMA DAM Solution, by netx
https://www.netx.net/portfolio/museum-digital-asset-management-moma/

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Best practices for conservation of media art from an artist’s perspective, by RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER digital artist based in Montreal
https://github.com/antimodular/Best-practices-for-conservation-of-media-art

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Dude, where's my NFT: distributed infrastructures for digital art

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Rhizome’s digital preservation program supports ongoing access to born-digital culture
https://rhizome.org/tags/preservation/

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rhizome has some open source tech for preservation
https://github.com/rhizomedotorg/

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Developing Metadata for Software-based Art, by the Guggenheim Museum
https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/developing-metadata-for-software-based-art/

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The project, "Fostering a Community of Practice (FCoP)", part of the software preservation network

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Bridging the gap in digital art preservation: interdisciplinary reflections on authenticity, longevity and potential collaborations

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Experimentation and collecting practice: balancing flexible policies and accountability in developing born-digital museum collections

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Preservation practices of new media artists: Challenges, strategies, and attitudes in the personal management of artworks

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Jonathan Farbowitz (Guggenheim) continues the on-going discussion of software preservation with Henry in talking about the goals of museums, the hard (and maybe impossible) task of keeping something intact, the norms and steps of conservation, comparing physical and digital artwork, the importance of authors in conserving a piece, emulation vs. language porting (rewrites), a discussion about an art's 'dependencies', possibly adding automated testing, and deprecations/breakages in environments/standards
https://maintainersanonymous.com/uptime/

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one of the largest collections in the world of still functioning media
https://www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/

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Net Art Anthology aims to address the shortage of historical perspectives on a field in which even the most prominent artworks are often inaccessible
https://anthology.rhizome.org/

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art and obsolescence podcast
https://www.artandobsolescence.com/

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“Towards Preserving Digital Culture”
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/03/26/preserving-digital-culture-interview-series-camille-francoise/
https://medium.com/@digitalculturepreservation

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Towards Preserving Digital Culture: An interview with Patricia Falcao
https://medium.com/@digitalculturepreservation/towards-preserving-digital-culture-an-interview-with-patricia-falcao-625e9d17a38a

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Miller Puckette on being able to access your own music in five years (modularity, open source):
https://youtu.be/ZLACjtOpe0Q?si=oBtjzHYWznvqS405&t=2621

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Nintendo is on a legal crusade to ban hardware emulators
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/how-strong-is-nintendos-legal-case-against-switch-emulator-yuzu/
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/03/switch-emulator-makers-agree-to-pay-2-4-million-to-settle-nintendo-lawsuit/
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/04/nintendo-targets-switch-emulation-chat-servers-decryption-tools-with-dmca/

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Réseau des médias variables (en français)
https://www.variablemedia.net/f/introduction/index.html

thx for the pointer @emmadickson!

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Small Data is an art conservation lab and consultancy specializing in digital and analog time-based media art, and archives.
https://smalldata.industries/