We talked ab0ut this at ISEA this week, primarily with Tim Murray @ the Cornell archives. This is a disturbing thing; and I asked whether what we were going to wind up with in the end was documentation, which he said "Maybe"...
You can't send a web server out as a torrent,and Turbulence's files are likely multi-terabyte if compressed into a single file, which would be ludicrous to deal with. The only thing I coudl see, institutionally, was Murray's idea of a static mirror, which is a thought. But online communities are living things, and once they stop having a motive force, they lose their vitality, and just become museums. Hopefully someone will choose to host a mirror. Can anyone say The Thing? On 5/23/16 10:48 AM, Jaromil wrote: >On May 17, 2016 7:42:11 PM GMT+02:00, nettime's_wandering_archivist ><[email protected]> wrote: >> < >> http://artfcity.com/2016/05/10/net-art-archive-turbulence-org-going-offline-raising-preservation-concerns/ >> > >> >> Net Art Archive Turbulence.org Going Offline, Raising Preservation Concerns > >terrible news, having lived through similar >times they have all my solidarity. <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
