New Frameworks for Born-Digital Art

This project will develop new frameworks for the long-term preservation and presentation of born-digital art. Preserving born-digital work can be challenging because platforms, hardware, and software are often updated or replaced, changing and even degrading how the original art is displayed. Through “containerization” — a portable, low-cost method of preserving and presenting the code, operating system, and text for experimental, born-digital art — future readers will still be able to view, distribute, collaborate on, and experiment with the original work even if its infrastructure has been altered or discontinued. This project was featured in the Brown Alumni Magazine in the April-May 2023 issue.

Contributors to this project include John Cayley, Ashley Champagne, Patrick Rashleigh, Cody Carvel, Hilary Wang.