Old Computers To New Imac

The Art of Re-collecting

@JonIppolito

Inspirations

Rinehart Richard Portrait
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Old collecting paradigm

Artist ➟ Curator ➟ Conservator

Young Painter At His Easel
Eschelbacher Portland Curator
Swedish Conservator Gold Frame

Solutions inside the museum

Stimied by storage

Digital Curation Raw Material 4 Tra

The Analog Video Graveyard

"If it's on a shelf, it's in trouble"

(Richard Wright, BBC)

Storage

Crate Mausoleum Tomb Equation

Misled by migration

Migration Error Document Too Old
Microsoft Word Wont Open Word

Migration

Microsoft Cloud 1

"Danger" Cloud

(Microsoft, 2009 CE)

Linear A Phaistos Disk B

Linear A

(Crete, 2000 BCE)

New re-collecting paradigm

Solutions outside the museum

Russian Museum Conservator Wikipedia
Girl Leaving Building Copyrighted

Re-collecting three video works

Paik Nam June, TV Garden: solution from the studio

Grahame Weinbren and Roberta Friedman, Erl King: solution from the community

Doug Aitkin, Station to Station: solution from the network

Paik Nam June, TV Garden

Paik Tv Garden Gug3 Vga

Disappearing CRTs

Vintage Tv Crt

Studio as solution

Paik Tv Garden Whitney

Emulate hardware with hardware.

Weinbren and Friedman, The Erl King (1983)

Seeing Dou Weinbren Ill

Dying laserdisks and computer

Weinbren Erlki B 500px
Weinbren Erlki C 500px

Community as solution

Emulators By Producer Chart
Flavin Dan Guggenheim Outside Seeing Double Logo

Library of Congress: "Emulation may serve our needs better than hardware"

Community as solution

Emulation by professionals: 2004-present

Seeing Dou Weinbren Ill

Emulation by amateurs: 1974-present

FCEUX Nintendo Nes Emulator

Community as solution

Real Mario SmaEmulators by amateurs

Diverging, re-converging, and constantly improving.

No one in charge.

Fceux Emulator Timeline

Doug Aitkin, Station To Station (2014)

Aitkin Doug Station To Station Instagram

Loss of context

Instagram Network Parti

Network as solution

Afghan Girl In Pakistan
Oscar Selfie Ellen Degeneres 2014

Network as solution

Instagram Network Diagram

Network as solution

Boerresen Morten Brainspace Spacebrain 4
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Morten Boerresen, Brainspace--SpaceBrain, 1983

Future forms of re-collection

Fab lab

Virtual Reality

Biotech lab

Fab lab

Reprogrammed Varisco Luminoso Variabile

Grazia Varisco and Reprogrammed Art

Virtual Reality

Zak Paik E Installation Vr
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Biotech

Dense

SyringeRetro Coke Machine1 gram of DNA

= 700 TB of data

= 14,000 50-GB Blu-ray discs

Stable

DNA can survive for hundreds of thousands of years in a box in your garage.

Biotech

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Dna Storage Diagram A

Biotech

Storage, even in DNA, is not preservation

Dna Storage X Files
Linear A Phaistos Disk B

What unites these approaches?

Paik Tv Garden Variations Print

Variable Media

Questionnaire

Endowment

Source code escrow

Variable Media

Questionnaire

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Variable Media

Endowment

Variable Media Endowment

Variable Media

Source escrow

Escrow Personified

To re-collect means

Presentation becomes preservation

Our expertise becomes interpretation

Conservators need to leave the building

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