Archiving Australian Media Arts: Towards a method and national collection

澳大利亚早期的数字媒体艺术遗产正处于危险之中。澳大利亚人为国际媒体艺术的发展做出了重要贡献，也为国内的作品制作和展览做出了重要贡献，但只有一小部分澳大利亚艺术家的数字艺术作品被机构收藏。不断恶化的磁盘和对过时硬件和软件的依赖意味着，如果要保存这些艺术品，就需要创新的数字保存和访问解决方案。该项目将与主要文化机构合作，从媒体艺术组织的档案中保存重要的媒体艺术案例研究，并为保护我们的数字媒体艺术遗产开发最佳实践方法。

The early years of Australian digital media arts heritage are at risk. Australians were significant contributors to the development of media arts internationally, as well as making and exhibiting work nationally, yet only a tiny portion of the digital artwork by Australian artists has made it into institutional collections. Deteriorating disks and reliance on obsolete hardware and software mean that innovative digital preservation and access solutions are needed if these artworks are to be saved. Working with key cultural institutions, this project will conserve key media art case studies from the archives of media arts organisations, and develop a best practice method for the preservation of our digital media arts heritage.