Works of digital and Internet art, performance, installation, conceptual, and other variable media art represent some of the most compelling and significant artistic creations of our time. These works constitute a history of alternative artistic practice, but because of their ephemeral, technical, or otherwise variable natures, they also present significant obstacles to accurate documentation, access, and preservation. Without strategies for preservation many of these vital works – and possibly whole new genres such as early Internet art – will be lost to future generations. Description of and access to art collections promote new scholarship and artistic production. By developing ways to catalog and preserve these collections, we will both provide current and future generations the opportunity to learn from and be inspired by these works. It is to achieve these goals that we initiated the consortium project Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art.
via BAM/PFA – Archiving the Avant-Garde.
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