Re-collection : art, new media, and social memory / Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito

By:

Rinehart, Richard

Contributor(s):

Ippolito, Jon

Series: Leonardo bookPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusets : The MIT Press, 2014Description: xii, 297 pISBN:

9780262027007

Summary: How will our increasingly digital civilization persist beyond our lifetimes? Audio and videotapes demagnetize; CDs delaminate; Internet art links to websites that no longer exist; Amiga software doesn't run on iMacs. In Re-collection, Richard Rinehart and Jon lppolito argue that the vulnerability of new media art illustrates a larger crisis for social memory. They describe a variable media approach to rescuing new media, distributed across producers and consumers who can choose appropriate strategies for each endangered work. New media art poses novel preservation and conservation dilemmas. Given the ephemerality of their mediums, software art, installation art, and interactive games may be heading to obsolescence and oblivion. Rinehart and lppolito, both museum professionals, examine the preservation of new media art from both practical and theoretical perspectives, offering concrete examples that range from Nam June Paik to Danger Mouse. They investigate three threats to twenty-first-century creativity: technology, because much new media art depends on rapidly changing software or hardware; institutions, which may rely on preservation methods developed for older mediums; and law, which complicates access with intellectual property constraints such as copyright and licensing. Technology, institutions, and law, however, can be enlisted as allies rather than enemies of ephemeral artifacts and their preservation. The variable media approach that Rinehart and lppolito propose asks to what extent works to be preserved might be medium-independent, translatable into new mediums when their original formats are obsolete. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 01586	Available		1900126104

I. Introduction: 1. The Lost and the Saved ; 2. New Media and Social Memory -- II. Technology: 3. Death by Technology ; 4. Variability Machines ; 5. Metadata and the Historic Record -- III. Institutions: 6. Death by institution ; 7. The Open Museum ; 8. Generation Emulation -- IV. Law: 9. Death by law ; 10. Unreliable archivists ; 11. Variable Organisms -- V. Conclusion: 12. Checking In ; 13. Only You Can Prevent the End of History -- Notes -- Index

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