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Will the art of the digital age last even one lifetime? If cloud computing fails, where will our documentation be stored? As the internet pioneer Vint Cerf recently asserted in conversation with Rhizome’s preservation director, Dragan Espenschied, “Preservation by accident is not a plan,” begging the questions, What is the plan? and, Do we have one? If we do not develop solutions now, we risk losing not only born-digital artwork but artists’ archives as well, effectively erasing the work and memory of this era and subsequent generations’ art history.

Today, an artist’s closetful of cardboard boxes is likely stuffed with old laptops and iPhones along with analog ephemera, handwritten letters, snapshots, and postcards. Artists’ archives are increasingly hybrid collections, requiring new and adaptable preservation methods. Even artists working in traditional media like painting and sculpture rely on born-digital methods to help create their art, manage records, and promote their work, while other artists create solely with born-digital materials. What does this mean for artists and their archives—both presently and in the future? Will these integral records that constitute the history of an artist’s practice and oeuvre be available at the end of this decade, let alone to scholars of later generations?

Hosted by the Yale Center for British Art, the National Digital Stewardship Residency for Art Information (NDSR Art) symposium will be held on May 11, 2018. It will explore topics engaging the theme of born-digital preservation and artists’ archives, including the following: artists’ use of born-digital methods within their practice as means of creation as well as documentation; the state of the field for artists and those who steward their collections and archives; what is being done by artists, museums, archivists, and librarians to steward and preserve the born-digital components of artists’ records?; how are born-digital tools changing artists’ studio practice, and what have we already lost?; and how are museum archives handling hybrid and born-digital artists’ archives —where among these bits and bytes is the artist’s hand? 

NDSR Art would like to hear about case studies from artists, librarians, and archivists working with born-digital records that underline their challenges, and possible preservation solutions, as well as what tools are being used, adapted, and developed for the digital preservation of artists’ archives. 

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> On 8 Jan 2018, at 14:37, Jon Ippolito <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> As Simon, Jean, and others have noted, numerous resources for media preservation persist online, from older sites like DOCAM to newer projects like Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology to portals that try to stay updated like the UK’s Digital Curation Centre. I guess we have to keep citing these to remind everyone they’re still out there.
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> For my part, I direct the University of Maine’s Digital Curation graduate program, whose curriculum strives to be both forward-looking and practical. For example, this spring I'm co-teaching a course in Digital Preservation, and we dedicate time to both more conventional techniques (like migration and checksums) as well as more experimental ones (like emulation and DNA storage). You can take all the courses online at:
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> http://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu
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> Emulation, I think, is a digital example of the sort of community-developed performative preservation that came up earlier in this discussion. Emulators make new computers "act like" older ones by interpreting vintage code for a modern context, and the vast majority of emulators have been written by amateurs.
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> In UMaine's digital preservation class we learn how to install, daisy-chain, and evaluate emulators. Thanks to the efforts of folks like Klaus Rechert, Dragan Espenschied, and Jason Scott, you can run some emulators right in your browser, without even installing them. Seeing is believing, so here are two of my favorite free demos:
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> * Windows 3.1
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> https://archive.org/details/win3_stock
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> * CD-ROMs via Mac OS 7
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> http://rhizome.org/editorial/2015/apr/17/theresa-duncan-cd-roms-are-now-playable-online
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> Emulation can't solve every problem of hardware obsolescence, but there are interesting projects to emulate (say) CRT screens and vector displays.
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> Looking back from this perspective at ancient history, it's tempting to think of the Rosetta Stone as the first emulator. But emulators are active programs, and the Rosetta Stone didn't perform any translations itself. It was more of a public crosswalk between languages, which could be used to convert from an arcane language to a vernacular one. The Rosetta Stone was the first API.
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> jon