it is all ephemeral, but/and archiving (something, somehow) is still important. but only in moderate proportions.
On 11.10.2017 04:42, Rob Myers wrote: > "Look upon my [net]works, ye mighty..." > > Here's a list of dead blockchains. > > >From 2014. > > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=588413.0 > > The list has only grown since then. > > I was recently asked to exhibit a project from two years ago that I > couldn't because the service it relied on was no longer operational. > > Ken Wark is bearish on "digital collectibles" - > > http://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/156418/my-collectible-ass/ > > But I find the illusion of permanence that millions of dollars of > security a day can give is irresistible. ;-) > > - Rob. > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2017, at 08:54 PM, John Hopkins wrote: >> On 09/Oct/17 02:22, helen varley jamieson wrote: >>> agree. thank goodness my art is mostly ephemeral & can't be stuck with a >>> financial pin like a dead butterfly ... >> Hah, thanks for that little reminder! Let's hear it for ephemeral >> networked art >> ("you had to be there" was the best reply I ever came up with when folks >> used to >> ask "what was that work about?"). OTOH, as a confirmed archivist, I try >> to >> capture some of those butterflies and stick pins through them -- but that >> effort >> is absolutely an impossible fight against entropy these days. The archive >> is too >> large, and formats for presentation are changing so fast. I am teetering >> on the >> edge of giving up -- right now I'd have to re-code all video works, and >> completely reformat a 7500-entry blog to 'work' properly with the newest >> iteration of WordPress. I refuse to go to corporate social media formats >> of >> distribution. And the 'punishment' of maintaining "a self-maintained >> island of >> personal research and expression in a sea of corporately hosted and >> filtered >> content" is getting to be too much. The full-time job has wrung all the >> resistent mojo outta this former-networker. >> >> <sigh> >> >> Hard to remember that it is *all* ephemeral. Even the highest wall, the >> biggest >> museum, and grandest civilization... >> >> so it goes. >> >> jh >> >> -- >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD >> hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny >> twitter: @neoscenes >> http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- helen varley jamieson he...@creative-catalyst.com <mailto:he...@creative-catalyst.com> http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.upstage.org.nz
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