Johannes (Birringer), I may be pre-empting Jon a bit here, but I'm reminded of a story that he told me. When Jon had launched the Variable Media initiative at the Guggenheim (about these very issues of course) in the context of (new) media art, then Conservator Carol Stringari pointed out that all artworks are made of "variable media", even bronze sculptures and tempera paintings change chemically over time, it's just that the timescale is much different than with a work of video art on VHS.
Johannes (Goebel), I agree with your interesting tangent, we should allow some works of media art to die a beautiful death (it will happen to most anyway), but I wouldn't consign all such works to oblivion because of their medium alone. It seems there is room to decide on a case by case basis.
Richard Rinehart
Director
Samek Art Museum
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