Re-Collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory
Educational Resources
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An interactive guide to the book's recommendations for preserving digital culture, organized by stakeholder.
An interactive quiz on examples from the book, organized by chapter.
Diagnose dead media
Learn how a seemingly archival medium can be vulnerable to obsolescence on many levels.
Four preservation strategies
Learn four preservation strategies--storage, migration, emulation, and reinterpretation.
History of storage
An overview of the history and technology of digital storage, from floppy disks to DNA. The lecture also covers several techniques for making storage more reliable, from external backups to RAID to cloud storage.
Three types of emulation
Learn three types of emulation that are useful as a preservation strategy, including hardware-for-hardware, software-for-software, and software-for-hardware.
Generation emulation
Learn how artists and curators use emulators to resurrect old platforms and hack vintage games for creative ends (based on 2004 Guggenheim panel discussion).
Daisychain emulators
Nesting emulators inside other emulators to resuscitate ancient software programs.
Emulate a vintage game
Learn how to emulate a vintage game with a contemporary computer
Variable media behaviors
Learn how categorizing creations by media-independent 'behaviors' can accommodate a wider range of technological and performative works than categorizing them by medium alone.