Digital Dialogues | Is Digital Art Forever?
Art Basel Miami Beach 2024, December 6th
Michael Connor (Director, Rhizome)
Regina Harsanyi (Associate Curator of Media Art, Museum of the Moving Image; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film, Columbia University)
Coline Milliard (Executive Editor, Art Basel)
The blockchain was meant to be a platform for ensuring that digital artwork has a provenance and is secure. However, even this is not enough to ensure the continuity of digital art – as of today, 192 crypto punks are considered “lost”. Blockchains may disappear, there is no independent database housing important works of art, platforms, technologies and code become obsolete. So how can we ensure that digital art collections are preserved?
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