Yes definitely not an easy task, and a lot of these questions are ones I'm asking myself, as contributor to a couple different arts organisations and their respective archives.
But I suppose for me the limited funding just reiterates these questions. If you don't have money to do everything, what are the real priorities? What does a piece of archived 'digital art' need to look (and more importantly) perform like? Does it make sense to maintain digital art or its genres (media, tactical, net) as separate delineations? And what are the core features which users actually need in order to engage with an archive in any meaningful way? To take your feature of responsive sites as just one quick example, we could look to our favourite tech overlord, Google, who decided that mobile wasn't just a 'nice to have' but took absolute precedence, and for years have developed everything on mobile first, then other platforms like desktop and tablet second. On 13 January 2015 at 14:58, Melanie Swalwell < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just quickly, and coming at this from a slightly different angle... > > It really concerns me that there is very little collection and > preservation of media arts heritage going on (almost nothing, in fact, in > Australasia). I am centrally engaged in trying to build a discourse > locally on born digital cultural heritage, because I think this is part of > the problem. Some of you might recall the Play It Again team ran a > conference in Melbourne on this last year to which a few NZers came (most > talks are online at playitagainproject.org/blog/conference-report). And > I currently head up the Aus-NZ coproduction to preserve and remember > locally made 80s games. So wearing these hats, I'd say that it's easy to > critique. The realities are that it is hard to get money to do this sort > of thing, which takes multiple skill sets so involves managing lots of > people/sub-projects/dealings with institutions, let alone the money to do > it really well (having mobile responsive websites, etc etc). Always ready > to hear new ideas if others can see better ways... > > Melanie > > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://ada.net.nz/ > > > Manage your list membership (Subscribe, Change to digest, Unsubscribe) > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list >
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