Internet Silent on New Media Art
27 Apr 2011
Would Anyone Care To Listen For Just ‘One Week’?
Late the other night, there was an interesting discussion among friends about rare and old films. Everyone has their favorites — many are long out of print, or just plain hard to find. Among my personal favorites is Buster Keaton’s One Week, embedded above. It paints a hilarious picture of Buster and his newlywed Sybil putting together their portable house. Now, that’s Media Art definitely worth preserving!
[Found at the Internet Archive, part of the collection: Silent Films]
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Born Digital Preservation: Part I
1 Jun 2011
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Billions of Bytes in Danger of Dying Alone
Conceived in the mind — yet ‘born digital’ — so much artwork and world history are now being nurtured and raised to maturity on computers everywhere. In this series, we will examine what is being done to ‘separate the wheat from the chaff,’ and highlight strategies currently in use to preserve the billions of valuable pixels distributed world-wide throughout the past two decades.
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