Saving Internet Art

Discover the tools of digital preservation

In collaboration with

Rhizome

Why preserve digital art?

EDITORIAL FEATURE

The Challenges of Preserving Digital Art

An insight from Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the internet

How will digital art survive?

A 21st century rescue mission

"Digital art needs to be preserved for the same reason any art needs to be preserved."Michael Connor (Rhizome's Artistic Director)

Internet as a medium

Behind the scenes of restoring important net art

"The Revolving Internet" by Constant Dullaart

A series of browser-based works that animated the iconic Google search page

Eduardo Kac's REABRACADABRA

Language and limits: an animated visual poem

Alexi Shulgin's Playfully Absurd Form Art

A humourous way of considering the web's interfaces

Antoni Muntadas’s "The File Room"

A landmark net art work exploring censorship globally

Yael Kanarek's "World of Awe" Project

A narrative told through graphical user interface

Performance on social media

Preserving Youtube and Instagram accounts

Reconstructing Petra Cortright's VVEBCAM

A performance piece that used Youtube as a platform

Amalia Ulman's "Excellences & Perfections"

A scripted social media performance

Saving a lost online community

EDITORIAL FEATURE

The Second Coming of the Kilobyte Age

How artists Dragan Espenschied & Olia Lialina are bringing GeoCities back to life

"Rhizome creates the tools to enable artists to preserve what they think is important on the Internet."Dragan Espenschied (Rhizome's Preservation Director)

Reviving interactive CD-ROMs

Keeping Theresa Duncan's videogames accessible

An initiative to bring three landmark 1990s “games for girls” to the web

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