Rhizome keeps it online
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# Rhizome keeps it online
When I need to know about groundbreaking new art that recontexualizes
how we think, speak and view the world, I go to **Rhizome**. Their
[interviews][1] are always fascinating, their examination of intention
and future ideology always [on-point][2]. They've recently published a
paper called **Sustainable Preservation Practices and the Rhizome
ArtBase**, which deals with their efforts to preserve artwork created
digitally and then introduced into the material world. What happens when
a work of art goes 404? A broken link can be the death of hours, months
or years of work. Rhizome's ArtBase is dedicated to keeping this work
alive, and **Sustainable Preservation Practices** is their manifesto for
this praiseworthy (though too-often unnoticed by the public eye) work.
Read the paper [here][3].
[1]: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/aug/10/artist-profile-duncan-malashock/
[2]: http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/jul/27/making-word-ryan-trecartin-poet/
[3]: http://media.rhizome.org/blog/8332/rhizome-digital-preservation-practices.pdf
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text: '<p> When I need to know about groundbreaking new art that recontexualizes how we think, speak and view the world, I go to <strong>Rhizome</strong>. Their <a href="http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/aug/10/artist-profile-duncan-malashock/">interviews</a> are always fascinating, their examination of intention and future ideology always <a href="http://rhizome.org/editorial/2011/jul/27/making-word-ryan-trecartin-poet/">on-point</a>. They’ve recently published a paper called <strong>Sustainable Preservation Practices and the Rhizome ArtBase</strong>, which deals with their efforts to preserve artwork created digitally and then introduced into the material world. What happens when a work of art goes 404? A broken link can be the death of hours, months or years of work. Rhizome’s ArtBase is dedicated to keeping this work alive, and <strong>Sustainable Preservation Practices</strong> is their manifesto for this praiseworthy (though too-often unnoticed by the public eye) work. Read the paper <a href="http://media.rhizome.org/blog/8332/rhizome-digital-preservation-practices.pdf">here</a>.</p>'
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# Rhizome keeps it online When I need to know about groundbreaking new art that recontexualizes how we think, speak and view the world, I go to **Rhizome**. Their [interviews][1] are always fascinating, their examination of intention and future ideology always [on-point][2]. They've recently pub...