Open the museum’s gates to pirates: Hacking for the sake of digital art preservation
Abstract
Third-party software dependency is a big threat for digital art- works. In this paper, we describe our experiences with artworks such as Remote Control by Shane Cooper or net.art generator by Cornelia Sollfrank. ZKM | Center for Art and Media initiated differ- ent research projects addressing the controversial issues of crack- ing abandoned proprietary software or hacking an API to guaran- tee access to its digital art collection. We show that using crowd- sourcing efforts as sustainable preservation strategies is a promis- ing approach as well as a trigger for new creative processes. ZKM opened its gates to pirates and hacker communities thereby ac- knowledging their contribution to digital art preservation.Details
- Creators
- Morgane Stricot; Matthieu Vlaminck; Daniel Heiss
- Institutions
- Date
- 2018-09-01 00:00:00 +0000
- Keywords
- boston
- Publication Type
- paper
- License
- CC BY 4.0 International
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