[-empyre-] Preservation

["Clare Stewart" <cstewart@acmi.net.au>]

Thanks to Lisa for this exciting phrase: "stages of currency". I will be incorporating it in my vernacular immediately to render all words like redundant (I hope my hesitant use of this word was clear!) and obsolete... well, redundant and obsolete (oh dear!). 

Daniel, I am glad we have been distracting you from your PHD enough for you to have shared the Variable Media Network info. I have just been checking out their site and there are a number of participating organisations from North America... the concept seems to mesh curatorial and archival principles (not that these have ever really been mutually exclusive categories) in a highly sophisticated way. I am not aware of similar research in Australia or elsewhere and would like to reinforce your query for info from other empyre folk on this. Interestingly, it seems that the project, in inviting the artist/creator "to imagine ways to outwit the obsolescence that often besets technological art forms" is priveleging the associative or relational meaning/organisational systems touched on in earlier posts, especially Michael A-M's. In a certain way, it also seems to be aiming for a kind of 'Device Independence' (thanks Jonathan). Without wanting to state the obvious (although that is exactly what I am about to do) it seems that the proliferation of media forms will continue to demand new approaches not only to the technical apsects of preservation and restoration, but also to the discourse and thinking around these issues.

Speaking of which, this is the final eve of this forum and I'll be wrapping up tomorrow... so its your last chance to migrate, mutate and decay.

Respect, Clare







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