FOR A COMPLETE PRESERVATION OF THE NEW MEDIA ART: NOTES ON ART TECHNOLOGYThis work discuss on digital art and its preservation. Being a kind of art recognized as born digital, it is among the field of contemporary art and the wide field of digital technology. At the same time, it is part of a society in which the technology has established itself worldwide providing means to criticize the idea of "digital" as advancement or progress. Based on those assumptions, we have tried to think about the complexity of that artistic expression which is manifested in its preservation. In this article, which features notes derived from research on art and its preservation, we seek to think on the relationship between art and data and how the preservation effort beyond the data (informational/computational) of technological art work reveals its statute from its industrial and artistic composition.
KEYWORDS:
Digital arts; Digital preservation; Complete preservation; Post-digital; Art and technology