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Idling in LA this summer? LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) is offering a variable media internship. No pay, but lotsa cool exhibitions to document.

Idling in LA this summer? LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) is offering a variable media internship. No pay, but lotsa cool exhibitions to document.

The first in a series of reports from Montreal’s DOCAM conference on preserving art endangered by technological or cultural obsolescence. What’s going to kill off your installation? Analog media–analog TV signals, video projectors, and even food–are probably the fastest poison. More…

This isn’t the first we’ve heard of this, but a very public instance: UCLA professors can no longer post videos on their educational media server.  Copyright refugees can find a home at Critical Commons, a resource developed by Steve Anderson and Holly Willis from cross-town USC for media-based teaching and research. The site promotes media uploads under fair-use with scholarly examinations of each work.

Video artist Gary Hill once responded to the question of how his work should be displayed when CRTs became obsolete with the suggestion that his video should be projected on his viewers’ bodies from inside their skin. When Hill was participating in the TechArcheology workshops a decade ago, this suggestion sounded flippant (and was perhaps meant to be). But now mainstream science has caught up with this nutty vision, and it looks like the porn industry won’t be far behind. So what happens when your LED tattoo goes obsolete? Microsoft customers had better be diligent about downloading the latest “patches,” or they’ll end up sporting the Blue Skin of Death.

Conservation programs of museums are far removed from the “proliferative preservation” of digital creators.