>> What in fact are we leaving behind for future generations on our hard drives and cloud repositories? And how will the technological culture of today be viewed when these values are no longer decipherable. Are we in fact erasing our historical past as we create it for the digital future?
I think this is a real issue. though we try to save some things using archives, the changing formats and technology (and speed of change) is causing data to be lost or at the very least, harder/longer to recover/republish (especially if they need converting later on). it's covering both net art and personal items such as home photos which are generally no longer printed, and home videos. I also wonder what future archeologists will think of our surviving buried rubbish. so whilst I love the net, I think it's important to go back to hand made physical art and craft too. if there is some pulse in the future which wipes all the technology we'll be left with a gap from our digital/online years. let's hope the libraries survive. I've heard of projects such as printed copies of Wikipedia, but I wonder how many they print and how distributed these are. (plus how often as WP changes so quickly). in smaller communities such as music communities (for one example), there's less event flyers printed out - they are all online or (worse) only on Facebook as event listings, which means they are lost over very short times. I suppose it's really up to how much people care about these things, and whether they work towards saving some of it or preparing for the future. looking forward to this month. checking out the artworks now - they're looking great thanks On 3 March 2015 at 06:17, Randall Packer <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] > > Here are some questions to consider: > > Are we in fact producing a cultural history that emanates from the > language of computers? Are the cultural references of today increasingly > coded in numerical values that will need to be compiled and encoded in the > far future by curious historians of the 21st century? What in fact are we > leaving behind for future generations on our hard drives and cloud > repositories? And how will the technological culture of today be viewed > when these values are no longer decipherable. Are we in fact erasing our > historical past as we create it for the digital future? > > Randall > > [snip] >
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