Ah!
I just received my English and French copies of the quite monumental 665 pages Digital Art Conservation, Preservation of Digital Art: Theory and Practice. It is an impressive collection of articles that represent the outcome of the three-year digital art conservation project (2010-2012) initiated at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. This book, edited by Bernhard Serexhe, manages to cover a wide range of views, from speculative to pragmatic, geeky to scholarly, and is likely to become a reference for anyone busy with digital art conservation.
Here is the blurb:
Are you born-digital?
This could be the ultimate, decisive question in the future when it comes to preserving and making the art of our time accessible for future generations.
The book presents the results of the digital art conservation project that was conceived at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and it designed to foster the international debate on the conservation of digital art.It includes text contributions by major theorists, restorers, programmers, and artists as well as case studies. It is designed to foster the international debate on the conservation of digital art. With contributions by Edmond Couchot, Alain Depocas, Johannes Gfeller, Sabine Himmelsbach, Anne Laforet, Aymeric Mansoux, Antoni Muntadas, Jussi Parikka, Bernhard Serexhe, Siegfried Zielinski, and many others.
You can get a copy there. I hope they’ll publish a PDF eventually.
You can read my contribution, How Deep is your Source, here. If digital art conservation is your thing, make sure to also check out Archives2020 edited by Annet Dekker :)
