[-empyre-] authenticity was Who decides and what to preserve

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

On Feb 8, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Luciana Duranti wrote:
> >3) selection must keep into account authenticity, which is often lost 
> through >transmission through time and space. Much of what ends up 
> preserved in digital >form is not the authentic output of the creator, 
> and does not have identity and >integrity

i am very curious about this issue of authenticity...

are you referring to work that does not originate in a digital form but 
begins as analog or physical material, is transcoded to digital + 
thereby loses authenticity, i.e. through this process itself, or 
unintended results, or cultural uses, or aesthetic shifts, or technical 
constraints, etc...?

also, how does transmission result in a loss of identity [+/or] 
undermine integrity?

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