Ben Fino-Radin, a conservator at Rhizome, part of  The New Museum, released an outstanding paper on the preservation of digital art. Digital Preservation Practices and the Rhizome ArtBase discusses hazards for aging net art like broken links and outdated scripts. Creating works that make use of rapidly changing internet standards is a bit like building a house on a shifting sandbar. This paper will undoubtedly influence the way we approach cataloguing and archival. 

 {Thanks to Patrick for forwarding this…}

While we are working on development, we will be opening this space up to submissions by independent curators who work with us on various projects - whether that means news or info about current works, or something of interest to them personally.

It’s learning a new language, but I am at a disadvantage: I can’t aid communication through hand gestures. Some industrious interactive engineer needs to figure out how to translate frustration through a trackpad swipe.

Collective Arts is a non-profit project that works with artists and art institutions to document transient artforms: performance, site-specific installation, and digital arts. 

Our main site is currently being developed, but this web log will be updated with our status, news, and thoughts of people involved in or simply around the project.