The Conservator Has Left the Building
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"New media art collection implies artists, collectors and exhibitors participate together."
--Yung Hsien Chen (Taiwan)
"In Japan, the reality is that curators at most museums must seek the assistance of outside specialists."
--Uke Uematsu (Osaka)
"Sticky Tape Syndrome"
(Fenna Yola Tykwer, ZKM/Graz)
"If it's on a shelf, it's in trouble"
(Richard Wright, BBC)
"Danger" Cloud (Microsoft, 2009)
Linear A (Crete, 2000 BCE)
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
Short-term solution on Canal Street (CT Louis)
"Restoring the internal electrical systems while maintaining CRT's identity as a physical object."
--Yuichiro Taira (Tokyo)
Grahame Weinbren and Roberta Friedman, The Erl King (1982, emulated 2004)
Diverging, re-converging, and constantly improving.
Morten Boerresen, Brainspace--SpaceBrain, 1983
Grazia Varisco and Reprogrammed Art
1 gram of DNA
= 700 TB of data
= 14,000 50-GB Blu-ray discs
DNA can survive for hundreds of thousands of years in a box in your garage.
Polymerase Chain Reaction "lets you pick the piece of DNA you're interested in and have as much of it as you want"
--Kary Mullis, inventor of PCR
Evolution creates genetic drift/draft.
Ultraviolet rays create mutations.
PCR generates errors.
Encapsulate in tiny glass spheres
Hide it in the Svalbard Seed Vault
Fix it with "organic checksums" (Reed-Solomon codes)
"We have to admit that the authenticity of works of art could be variable"
--Eunjin Kim (Korea)
(Lauren Shadford of Voices in Contemporary Art (New York) offers "Artist Interview Workshops")
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