2025/09/22

Kelani Nichole’s Data Trust Solves Digital Permanence Through Cooperation

“Not every work of art can be brought into the deep future. Stewardship across generations is incredibly laborious. To bring something into the future is to make it separate from that which will not receive the same investments of care.”
– Journalist and researcher Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, on Kelani Nichole’s mission to make digital art “last 100 years.” With Transfer Data Trust, a newly launched data cooperative, the American new media art advocate brings together artists, dealers, and conservators in a care network that includes tools and protocols for decentralized stewardship.
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