Conservation & Tools
CONSERVATION
Anne Laforet is writing her PhD thesis on "The preservation of Net Art in museums. The strategies at work."
PhD thesis "The preservation of Net Art in museums. The strategies at work."
Anne Laforet
2009
under the direction of Jean Davallon
University of Avignon, France
(text in French - soon available to download under a free license + links + bibliography)
summary :
WYSOCKA, E. Agatha Re-Appears, net art resoration project
WYSOCKA, E. Agatha Re-Appears, net art resoration project, 2008
Restoration Project: Olia Lialina’s early net.art piece “Agatha Appears” from the Collection of C³ Center for Culture & Communication Foundation
State of the artwork before the restoration.
Work was originally created for Netscape 4.0 browser in HTML 3.2 language and real audio sound format. Original files have become incompatible with contemporary browsers and work was no longer available in its previous, interactive form.
Due to corruption and disappearance of some files, sections of Agatha's trajectory got lost and so was the original idea of the piece
Read the whole article on INCCA WYSOCKA
Vanishing net-art (introduction to net art restoration)
Launch project
(1990)
The aim of this essay is to draw restorers' and theorists' attention to the phenomena that exist in virtual space. This should be associated with a very specific type of restoration that unfortunately does not yet exist in practice or exists in its amateur form. This means research related to the restoration of net art (net.art, internet art). It is likely that the significance of this art will increase only at the beginning of the next millennium. A question will arise how to save things that have already lost their form.
The significance of net art security is viewed through the eyes of a restorer in this essay. Based on the realisation that virtual phenomena are intangible, attempts have been made to clarify technical possibilities to preserve this art. Because of this, there have been no efforts to identify the things that should be preserved and things that should be simply rejected.
TOOLS
Cinelerra
Cinelerra is the most advanced non-linear video editor and compositor for Linux. It is developed by Adam Williams (formerly known as Jack Crossfire) at Heroine Virtual Ltd..
To know more see the official Cinelerra home page and the SourceForge project page.
Cinepaint
CinePaint is a deep paint image retouching tool that supports high color fidelity painting tools.
CinePaint is used to retouch feature films and in pro photography. CinePaint opens high fidelity image file formats such as DPX, 16-bit TIFF, and OpenEXR, and conventional formats like JPEG and PNG. It has a flipbook for movie playback of image sequences in RAM. It supports 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit color channels, HDR and CMS.
