Found food for thought
Re–blog from the Guardian.
I’ve posted about digital preservation earlier. In this article Bobbie Johnson mention two projects, one American and one European. I wish them all the luck creating the simulator of simulators and promise to keep you updated on the projects.
Re–blog from the Guardian.
Art and science has always been closely linked, nothing new to that. But I was totally unaware about this type of exchange. Using biotechnology to preserve works of art. Now this is the type of creativity that makes me proud of being human!
Re–blog from NY Times.
Finally the art of digital preservation is getting the attention it deserves.
A decade ago my venture into sound art and acousmatic music began. I’ll never forget when I first realized how many art works that we have lost forever due to poor preservation. I found it, and still do, so strange. Works just a couple of decades old created with something as cool as a computer is gone forever. How is that possible? Are we so fascinated with older history that we forget our own as we create it? Or is it our obsessed with the future that makes us forget to document our contemporary history properly?
Of course this is of even greater importance today, since most of us more or less entirely use digital technology to write our personal history.
Virtual Vagabond 