2025/10/17

Internet Art Pioneer Hits Limits of Digital Preservation

“Because this software environment no longer exists, a perfect 1-to-1 recreation in modern code is impossible. The original work remains a unique digital artifact, tied forever to the specific technological moment of its creation.”
– Austrian software artist LIA, on the failed restoration of re-move 09 (2002). One of ten interactive works created in Macromedia Director, the piece explored an inherent glitch in the long-defunct multimedia authoring suite that proved impossible to recreate. “This ‘glitch’ was not an error, but was embraced as a core part of the artwork’s generative process and aesthetic,” LIA writes in the documentation.
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