For the FUTURE PROOF MEDIA ART project, LIMA’s research team of art conservation, documentation, technology, digital engineering, and sound and video production experts have worked in collaboration with Dutch media artist Geert Mul to conduct a large-scale investigation into documentation and preservation approaches of complex software-based and interactive media artworks in order to define an artwork script to guide future …
Preserving Interactives
This white paper seeks to answer the question of how we can preserve interactive documentaries — a loosely undefined amalgam of works that are represented online, via browser applications or mobile apps. It gives a critical outline of current preservation practices for complex interactive documentaries that are supported through an industry loosely affiliated with film and documentary festivals: IDFA, Tribeca, …