Digital Preservation in the Age of the Selfie

Anonymous Fawkes Police Selfie 2014

@JonIppolito

Inspirations

Rinehart Richard Portrait
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The Analog Video Graveyard

Digital Curation Raw Material 4 Tra

"If it's on a shelf, it's in trouble" — Richard Wright, BBC

The Digital Afterlife?

Microsoft Cloud 1

Missing behaviors

Behaviors

Var Behavior Icons Grid

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Behaviors

Encoded

Depends on standard

Whitney John Matrix Iii 1972

John Whitney, Matrix III (1972) link 1 link 2

Behaviors

Installed

Depends on hardware

Joan Jonas Vertical Roll

Joan Jonas, Organic Honey's Vertical Roll (1972) link

Mccall Anthony Line Describing Cone 1973

Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone (1973) link

Behaviors

Performed

Depends on performer

Jacobs Ken Film Projectors

Ken Jacobs, Day and Night/Bitemporal Vision (1994) link

Behaviors

Performed

Depends on context

Boerresen Morten Videobaby

Morten Boerresen, Video Baby

Behaviors

Interactive

Depends on software

Weinbren Erlki B 500px

Grahame Weinbren and Roberta Friedman, The Erl King (1982)

Behaviors

Networked

Depends on signal/links

Paik Magnet Tv

Nam June Paik, Magnet TV (1965)

Behaviors

Performed + Networked

Periscope Sunset

Periscope

Warhol Andy Empire Moma

Andy Warhol, Empire

"The future of online video was never The Sopranos. It was Warhol’s Empire, eight hours of the Empire State Building." --Wired.

Behaviors

Performed + Networked

Doug Aitken, Station-to-Station

Aitkin Doug Station To Station Instagram

Behaviors

Encoded + Performed

Virtual Reality

Disney Invests Vr Jaunt Cnet

Behaviors

Encoded + Performed

Zak Paik E Installation Vr
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Strategies to preserve behaviors

Storage fantasy

Raiders Government Warehouse B

Storage reality

Crate Mausoleum Tomb Equation

Migration fantasy

Osx Windows Migration Assistant

Migration reality

Microsoft Word Wont Open Word

Emulation

Seeing Dou Weinbren Ill

Grahame Weinbren and Roberta Friedman, The Erl King (1982, emulated 2004)

Emulation

Dying hardware

Weinbren Erlki B 500px
Weinbren Erlki C 500px

Emulation

Software can emulate basic hardware

16mm Film Looper Projector

Looping film projector(Robert Film Services)

Vine Logo

Vines and animated GIFs

Flavin Dan Guggenheim Outside Seeing Double Logo

Emulation

Same code

57 Seeing Dou Weinbren Code

Emulation

Renewed hardware

Simon Colorpanels V A Ill

Emulation

Generational variation

Seeing Survey Savvy

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

Reinterpretation

Jacobs Ken Flo Rounds A Corner

Ken Jacobs, Flo Rounds a Corner link 1 link 2

Reinterpretation

Film v. Movie

Pixar Toy Story Horizontal

Reinterpretation

Reinterpreting Art

Reprogrammed Varisco Luminoso Variabile

Reprogrammed Art Project, Lugano

Reinterpretation

Loss of artistic integrity?

Reinterpretation

Solution: Both/And

Parthenon
Parthenon Dismantle Horse
Parthenon Horse Head
Linux Distro Timeline

Reinterpretation

Kitschy knock-offs?

Chinese Rhino 123d Catch
Kandinsky Scarf

Reinterpretation

Both/And for 3D scans

Tlinget orca hat

Tlingit Orca Hat Print V Original 2
Tlingit Orca Hat Print V Original 1

So what do we collect?

Collecting standards

  1. Formats
  2. Relationships
  3. Slippage

Standards

Formats

Proliferating codecs

Video Codec Timeline Iain Richardson

Standards

A codec-less standard

Bitmap Image Closeup
Seeing Dou Weinbren Ill

Standards

Digital relationships

Eisenstaedt Sailor Kiss Vj Day
Oscar Selfie Ellen Degeneres 2014

Standards

Analog relationships

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

Standards

Standards for slippage

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