Only You Can Prevent the End of History

Crate Mausoleum Tomb Equation

@JonIppolito

Inspirations

Rinehart Richard Portrait
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Digital Curation Logo Xvga

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

Var Behavior Icons Grid

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Encoded

Depends on standard

Whitney John Matrix Iii 1972

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

Installed

Depends on hardware

Mccall Anthony Line Describing Cone 1973

Anthony McCall, Line Describing a Cone (1973) link

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

Performed

Depends on performer

Jacobs Ken Film Projectors

Ken Jacobs, Bitemporal Vision (1994)

Performed

Depends on context

Boerresen Morten Videobaby

Morten Boerresen, Video Baby

Karlsen Inghild Scarecrows

Inghild Karlsen, Scarecrows

Interactive

Depends on software

Weinbren Erlki B 500px

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

Networked

Depends on signal/links

Paik Magnet Tv

Nam June Paik, Magnet TV (1965)

Strategies

Storage

Raiders Government Warehouse B

Migration

Slettermark Chroma Key Identity Blue Vga

Kjartan Slettemark, Chromakey Identity Blue

Emulation

Seeing Dou Weinbren Ill

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

Dying hardware

Weinbren Erlki B 500px
Weinbren Erlki C 500px
Flavin Dan Guggenheim Outside Seeing Double Logo

Same code

57 Seeing Dou Weinbren Code

Renewed hardware

Simon Colorpanels V A Ill

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

Pixar Toy Story Horizontal

Reprogrammed Art

Reprogrammed Varisco Luminoso Variabile

Loss of artistic integrity

Solution: Both/And

Parthenon
Parthenon Dismantle Horse
Parthenon Horse Head
Linux Distro Timeline

Kitschy knock-offs?

Chinese Rhino 123d Catch
Kandinsky Scarf

Both/And for 3D scans

Tlinget orca hat

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

Standards

Standards

  1. Formats
  2. Relationships
  3. Slippage

Standards for digital relationships

Eisenstaedt Sailor Kiss Vj Day
Oscar Selfie Ellen Degeneres 2014

Standards for analog relationships

Boerresen Morten Brainspace Spacebrain 4
Boerresen Morten Brainspace Spacebrain 5

Morten Boerresen, Brainspace--SpaceBrain, 1983

Standards for slippage

Vmq Comparisons Mockup Ill
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