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Variable Media Initiative >>
Critic and curator Jon Ippolito has been focusing his
attention on the preservation and archiving of media art.
His variable media program applies to many forms of art and is of
particular significance to the net art community who are just now coming
to grips with the fact that this kind of software-dependent work may not
work on the browsers of the future. What to do? Archive old versions
of Netscape? Old Mac classics?
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[from the site:]
"To be sure, some artists making work for the Web argue that the sheer
number of html pages out there encourages the likelihood that the
information they contain will still be accessible in the future. True
enough--but accessible in what form? Html is already a variable format,
which is why the same Web page can look different on different people's
screens. Individual users can set their browsers to various page sizes and
background colors, default typefaces and sizes, even whether to display
images at all--while still accessing the same ASCII data. To me, however,
this variability of html makes it all the more likely that it will evolve
into something else ten years from now."
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