Variable Media Initiative >>
Jon Ippolito
Critic and curator Jon Ippolito has been focusing his attention on the
preservation and archiving of media art. His variable media program applies to
many forms of art and is of particular significance to the net art community who
are just now coming to grips with the fact that this kind of software-dependent
work may not work on the browsers of the future. What to do? Archive old
versions of Netscape? Old Mac classics?
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||| HIAFF 3.0 | university of colorado | department of art and art history | digital arts area | in conjunction with alt-x | atlas | blurr
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[Intro] [from the site:] "To be sure, some artists making work for the Web argue that
the sheer number of html pages out there encourages the likelihood that the
information they contain will still be accessible in the future. True
enough--but accessible in what form? Html is already a variable format, which is
why the same Web page can look different on different people's screens.
Individual users can set their browsers to various page sizes and background
colors, default typefaces and sizes, even whether to display images at
all--while still accessing the same ASCII data. To me, however, this variability
of html makes it all the more likely that it will evolve into something else ten
years from now."
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