Strategies for Preserving New Media Art
Source: New Media Art
pg. 24: “The inherently ephemeral nature of much New Media art, we well as its often unfamiliar aesthetics and technologies, posed a challenge to gallerists and collectors. Some artists provide a CD-ROM of other storage device containing a copy of the work (e.g. the sale of a floppy disk containing Douglas Davis’ The World’s First Collaborative Sentence to collectors in 1995). Others produce works that take the form of physical objects, such as John F. Simon Jr.‘s wall-mounted “art appliances,” which recall framed paintings. Feng Mengbo’s Iris prints from his interactive CD-ROMs and Cory Arcangel’s silk-screens of images from his Game art works, have had commercial success, partly because such forms are familiar and relatively easy to exhibit.”