2022/06/28

Accepting Loss is Vital to Digital Art Conservation, Annet Dekker Says

● 28/06/2022
“It’s important to accept loss, to accept decay, and to let go. We lose things constantly in computational culture, and it’s not necessarily a bad thing.”
– Annet Dekker, Dutch curator and digital art researcher, on the challenges (and anxieties) of conservators. Rather than obsessing over perfect preservation, “we need to plant finds—fragments—that trigger a memory,” Dekker suggest, citing former SFMOMA collection director Jill Sterrett. [quotes edited]
Art & Obsolescence
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