Translations:Preserveren van digitale kunst: uitdagingen en oplossingen uit de praktijk/6/en

Internet art by Rafaël van Roozendaal

Rafaël van Roozendaal has been creating interactive internet art since 2001. But his art isn’t necessarily future proof; the shelf-life of hardware and software is too limited for that. So how do you document a digital artwork in such a way that the experience it is originally intended to evoke remains clear, even when the equipment required for displaying it in its original context might no longer be available? First and foremost, nobody is better placed to determine the artwork’s essential characteristics than the artist themselves. They should therefore document their own work, for example using a video to provide context. Van Roozendaal shows how this is possible in the video below (developed in collaboration with the Dutch platform for media art, LIMA).