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Preservation of Software-based Art at Tate

dc.contributor.editorGrau, Oliver
dc.contributor.editorHoth, Janina
dc.contributor.editorWandl-Vogt, Eveline
dc.creatorFalcão, Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-17T10:49:46Z
dc.date.available2020-02-17T10:49:46Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractSoftware-based art has been part of the Tate Collection since 2003. In the intervening period, practices in different institutions have changed and become aligned and shared within the community of practitioners. It is fair to say that the current body of knowledge has reached a degree of con-sensus around the specificities of this medium and the processes involved for sustainability and preservation, or the lack thereof. This paper de-scribes our current understanding of the role of the conservator, the lifecycle of the artwork in the institution from a conservation perspective and some of the recent developments in the field. We discuss intervention, defined as any action that changes the materials of an artwork, both hardware and software, in terms of its possible intentions and the most usual types. We identify intervention not only at a treatment moment but also possibly as a preventive measure, that increases a system's sustaina-bility.Conservation of software-based art is still in its infancy, but strategies are being actively tested and developed in different contexts and practices, and Tate as an institution is happy to contribute to those developments through practice but also by disseminating information.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/13189
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14111
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherEdition Donau-Universität
dc.publisher.placeKrems a.d. Donau
dc.relation.isPartOfisbn:978-3-903150-52-2
dc.relation.isPartOfdoi:https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13360
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subjectMuseumde
dc.subjectTateen
dc.subjecttime-based mediaen
dc.subjectmuseum collectionen
dc.subjectconservationen
dc.subject.ddcddc:770
dc.titlePreservation of Software-based Art at Tateen
dc.typebookPart
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeBookParten
local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:16:51
local.source.booktitleDigital Art through the Looking Glass. New strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities
local.source.epage287
local.source.spage271

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