ERROR 404

Missing Link

The Web site you've attempted to load cannot be viewed

[Examples: 1 2 3 4]

Possible reasons for this failure include

Protection fault

Your legal system may not support artworks that appropriate or recombine materials from online sources, even though this is a critical dynamic of 21st-century artistic and musical production.

Example:

Alice Randall, The Wind Done Gone

2LiveCrew v. Roy Orbison

Inaccessible source code

Your technological system may have defaulted to closed standards. If the artwork depends on accessing source code from online sources, compiled Web formats will disable the project.

Example:

Flash

Java

Outdated economic driver

Your economic system may have reverted to a property-based business model under pressure from the art market, thus rendering public urls private.

Example:

A gated community locked by a password

Insufficient memory

Your cultural heritage system may have reverted to a storage-based paradigm, which cannot accommodate rapid changes in technology.

Example:

Group Z's obsolete artworks for Netscape 1.1

To correct these problems

Click here to increase your legal system's Fair Use protection

Boucher-Doolittle bill

Be wary of spelling out Fair Use

Click here to update your economic model

"Digital Sanctuary"

Deferred rights

Conservation escrow

Conservation easements

Click here to promote open technological standards

Open Art Network

Transparency

Recombinacy

Annotation

Circulation

Attribution

Click here to update your preservation paradigm

Variable Media paradigm

Storage = death

New strategies

Emulation

Migration

Reinterpretation

These strategies require open legal and economic values

Emulation

Depends on accessible source code

Pentium c. 2001 on Linux 2050

Reinterpretation

Depends on updated economic model

Java source code c. 2001 for reinterpretation as SuperJava c. 2050