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#TimeBasedMedia

This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.

https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-immaterial

#FilmPreservation #VariableMedia #MediaArt #FilmHistory #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #MuseumStudies

Ken Jacobs inspecting one of his projectors, ca. 1995

New episode! 🎚️

Ever wondered what time-based media is? Ever wanted to know how you go about conserving something like that? 📹 Well we’re here to sate your curiosity! We’re joined by the fabulous Cass Fino-Radin as we try to wrap our brains around this topic: let’s geek out together!

Listen here: https://thecword.show/2023/06/15/s13e07-time-based-media-conservation/

#conservation #podcasts #conservators #TimeBasedMedia

An illustration of various museum objects that could relate to time-based media: a CRT TV with a game on screen, a Jaguar game controller, a USSR projector, a memory card, a MiniDisc, an artwork with a phone number scrawled on it, a phone sending text messages, an audio waveform, a servo, a digital video, a box of mysterious spares, documentation about a performance, a VR headset, and a Windows window with some code. In the middle of it all is a neon sign reading ‘time-based media’ which glows. (Artwork by Jenny Mathiasson 2023 – screenshot of Polybius courtesy of Jeff Minter)

Delighted that MIT has published a new paperback edition of Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory, my book with Richard Rinehart—just in time to use as a reference text in my spring #DigitalPreservation course! http://re-collection.net

#collections #archives #museums #digipres #metadata #glam #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #DigitalArt #NewMedia #MITpress