This book is a study of the role of cultural and heritage networks and how they can help
institutions and their host societies manage the tensions and realise the opportunities …

Conservation approaches for contemporary artworks have increasingly turned to a work's
identity as the object of conservation and perpetuation. Within the “performance paradigm” …

This study brings together and critically reflects on the social, policy, and technological
contexts within which cultural heritage institutions are addressing current challenges of …

Purpose–The preservation and curation of music with real-time or live electronics is
challenging. The goal is not to preserve a recording of the performance but to keep the work …

Due to the obsolescence of software programmes, hardware and network infrastructures,
many network-based artworks have disappeared. How can we give them an afterlife? A …

The collections of many private and public art institutions today contain a significant number
of contemporary artworks that involve or combine live performance, technology, and an …

There are practical problems associated with documentation, preservation, access, function,
context and meaning of digital art. How do we care for similar works, and which are the …

This paper presents a real-life case-based investigation of current digital and media art
conservation practices in public collections. Theoretical, methodological and practical issues …

209 already existing physical objects, places or buildings, or shown on screens in physical
public settings. 5 The challenges of preservation are profoundly different when it comes to …

In questo testo si presenta una guida alle strategie di conservazione nel lungo periodo di
opere d'arte digitale. Oltre a una breve presentazione di ogni strategia che viene …