How to Implement Sustainable Practices?

LI-MA and the SBMK teams travelled to Dundee by boat, reflecting the mission of the conference: sustainability. At the conference, LI-MA’s Gaby Wijers (Director), Olivia Brum (Junior Conservator) and Mauricio van der Maesen de Sombreff (Engineer and Junior Conservator, joining online) presented a workshop titled, “Collaborative Care of Digital Art.” Their contribution focused on the importance of building a collaborative sustainable infrastructure for digital art using the conservation measures taken for Jan Robert Leegte’s internet art piece, Compressed Forests, as a key example. 

Discussion prompted by the workshop revolved around what happens when social media platforms utilised by artworks no longer work, artist intention regarding how much should be documented, and the importance of institutional collaboration to improve knowledge and practices regarding digital art preservation.

 

Header Image: Gaby Wijers (Director) presenting at the Sustaining Art: People, Practice, Planet in Contemporary Art Conservation Symposium

Photo by Bonnie Brae Productions / University of Dundee