Re: [-empyre-] archiving

[//jonCates <joncates@criticalartware.net>]

On Feb 6, 2005, at 10:03 PM, Paul Koerbin wrote:
> >Your suggestion about recording audio-visual content from the screen I
> >don't think is daft. I seem to recall we contemplated this at one 
> stage,
> >some years ago, with Real Media files but did not get very far with 
> it.

it is amazing to imagine this scenario of archiving new media onto 
older + older forms to reach .bak into the past in order to grasp 
greater + greater degrees of material stability for immaterial digital 
[works/projects/processes].  i love how this possibility complicates 
technopositivist conceptions of unlimited [progress/upward spirals] 
toward utopic states.

// jonCates
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