Yasminers,
While this comment might avoid the primary issues, it could be that
even the vaguest evidence of works---including periods marked by an
absence of form---will stimulate imaginative responses through
speculation about what the indications are, once were, or might have
been.
Thanks,
Robert Thill
On 8/17/14, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Yasminers
>
> we are concluding our discussion with Rick Rinehart and Jon Ippolito
> around their book Re-Collection
>
> Re-collection Art, New Media, and Social Memory
>
> http://re-collection.net/
>
> we would welcome any final comments this weekend-
>
> clearly this is the beginning of the story- current archiving and
> restoration
> practices for non digital media have evolved over the centuries with past
> practices now considered un acceptable= and many older museums have closed
> and their collections dispersed
>
> the internet archive
> https://archive.org/index.php )
>
> functions on the basis of donations as they could not keep up with the
> volume-they
> state
> The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library. Its
> purposes include offering permanent access for researchers,
> historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public
> to historical collections that exist in digital format.
>
> .... Archive has been receiving data donations fromAlexa Internet and
> others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more
> well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes: texts,
> audio, moving images, and softwareas well as archived web pages in our
> collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading
> and information access for the blind and other persons with
> disabilities.
>
> Cloud storage is in the hands of commercial companies that make no
> commitment to archival storage
>
> i think i mentioned the work of a colleague expert in Mesopotamian
> clay tablets.. christine proust
>
> http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/alumni/2009-2010/christine-proust
>
> i remember in a talk she gave that many clay tablets were rescued
> because they were re used
> as building materials in the admin buildings of mesopotamia- there are
> millions of them now
> being dug out of clay walls= including exercises by students in their
> class work and the
> dissemination of new syllabi by the central educational
> administration= and no doubt also
> sketches by art students of the time
>
> too bad you cant recycle digital media into something useful that will
> last centuries
>
> roger malina
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