TY - JOUR
T1 - Artistic concerns in preservation
T2 - how to preserve a digitally-born artwork
AU - Albuquerque, Beatriz
N1 - Funding Information:
Sponsored by National Funds through FTC – Foundation for Science and Technology under the project UID/EAT/00622/2016. Author's address: Beatriz Albuquerque, Research Centre for Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR), Catholic University of Portugal, Rua de Diogo Botelho, 1327, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal; email: [email protected]. © [2019] by the author; licensee Studies in Digital Heritage, IU, Bloomington (IN), USA. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC).
Publisher Copyright:
© [2019] by the author; licensee Studies in Digital Heritage, IU, Bloomington (IN), USA. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC).
PY - 2019/6/28
Y1 - 2019/6/28
N2 - The rise of new technologies in the twenty-first century is accompanied by challenges in arts preservation that underscore the need to constantly adapt to new ways of approaching preservation issues. This article investigates the problems in preserving digitally-born cultural heritage and explores the connections between digital cultural heritage and preservation of digitally-born artwork. At the core of this study is the question of how to deal with and preserve digital cultural heritage in the changing world of technology, following a case study model with an emphasis on practical research. The results suggest that while the importance of preventing damage is crucial, further investigations are needed in order to fully treat issues concerning the accurate representation of the artist's intention.
AB - The rise of new technologies in the twenty-first century is accompanied by challenges in arts preservation that underscore the need to constantly adapt to new ways of approaching preservation issues. This article investigates the problems in preserving digitally-born cultural heritage and explores the connections between digital cultural heritage and preservation of digitally-born artwork. At the core of this study is the question of how to deal with and preserve digital cultural heritage in the changing world of technology, following a case study model with an emphasis on practical research. The results suggest that while the importance of preventing damage is crucial, further investigations are needed in order to fully treat issues concerning the accurate representation of the artist's intention.
KW - Digital art
KW - Digital heritage
KW - Digital preservation
KW - Technology obsolescence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106365077&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.14434/sdh.v3i1.25935
DO - 10.14434/sdh.v3i1.25935
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85106365077
SN - 2574-1748
VL - 3
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Studies in Digital Heritage
JF - Studies in Digital Heritage
IS - 1
ER -