Calling artists with content on Floppies or CD-ROMs*!!

The Digital Heritage Lab is sharing access to our specialist disk imaging equipment. We will show you how to preserve your obsolete disks* (CD-ROMs, Floppies, Zips).

The #AusEAASI website has details: auseaasi.org/artist-outre...

Kelly Tarlton's Final Treasure Hunt podcast An adventure that began 250 years ago explores the life of Kelly Tarlton.

Recently listened to this RNZ podcast about Kelly Tarlton (deep sea treasure hunter, tinkerer, and aquarium pioneer) while on a bus to and from Whangarei from Auckland. A mind blowing story, can’t recommend it enough

Wonder how this social media ban for u.16s will shape the digital habits of a younger generation? NZ seems determined to implement it too. As someone b.1994, accumulation and digital footprints felt defining for us…

Amid all the cyberpunk and system fonts, not to mention the mega kerning of the 90s (read: Being Digital) I'm seeing in my research material, quite blown away by Nelson's Literary Machines giving 'curly girly'

I found mine on my supervisor’s faculty page if I remember right. I was scoping for courses/academics in art & digital preservation. Hope that’s helpful.

Land Artist Awarded Nearly $1M in Iowa Museum Settlement Mary Miss filed a breach of contract suit against the Des Moines Art Center last year after it moved to deaccession "Greenwood Pond: Double Site.”

Mary Miss’s 'Greenwood Pond: Double Site' (1989–96), a major US-based land artwork, to be being deaccessioned and demolished. A super interesting case study on the challenges of stewarding 'ephemeral'/ecological art

Memory Institutions Meet AI: Lessons from Critical Technology Discourse — DAHJ In this work we ask: how should GLAMs account for the emergence of AI-driven experiences built upon GLAM datasets?

My article of the year:

GLAM institutions are embracing open, machine-readable datasets.
While transformative, this shift brings ethical and governance challenges in AI integration.
By JORDAN FAMULARO and REMI DENTON
#AI #GLAM #DigitalHumanities
https://dahj.org/article/memory-institutions-meet-ai

Geo Artwork - Google Arts & Culture Guess the origins of artifacts

Just learned Google has GeoGessr for art. It's hard.

Toitū Te Tiriti 🖤🤍❤️

Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Studying the Detritus (2023). ocula.com/art-gallerie...

Should have added the link. Been trawling through so many archived websites that I didn't realise this one is still live:
va.com.au/parallel/

Found in the footer of Parallel, an online gallery and journal from South Australia c.1997

Post-post-internet = (techno)Romanticism?

‘Why did the art lecturer teach me politics?’ Another great write up from the White Pube re Poor Things the novel.

David Shrigley Serves 8,000 Tennis Balls in Melbourne | News ‘What I thought I was doing was giving people a nice, clean tennis ball in exchange for a dirty one that their dog might have chewed,’ Shrigley said.

I had the opportunity to do a quick interview with David Shrigley at NGV a few weeks back! Realise it's the sort of thing I should be posting here 🎾 ocula.com/magazine/art...

‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec “There is no real picture, full stop.”

The area between ai generated images (dall-e etc) and photography is becoming grey-er. AI & other kinds of optimisation increasingly built into smart phone photography www.theverge.com/2024/2/2/240...

I’ve rediscovered Stella Brennan’s ‘Wet Social Sculpture’, which involved a spa pool (that you could absolutely hop into) exhibited at AUT’s St Paul art gallery in 2005 🧖‍♀️ ada.net.nz/library/dive...

A selection of books featured in the book talk series.

Our popular book talk series with Authors Alliance drew record crowds this year! More than 2,000 attendees came to an in-person or virtual talk by authors including Cory Doctorow, Peter Baldwin, Abby Smith Rumsey, Laine Nooney, Jessica Silbey & more! Browse & watch: blog.archive.org/2023/12/26/b...

The Hilla von Rebay Foundation, On extended loan to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Cliffs by Vasily Kandinsky, 1908

https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137633

The imaginary cover to a 1928 issue of "Weird Tales from the Public Domain" features a fat cat in a top hat, smoking a cigar, strangling a mouse. The tagline of "Freeing culture from corporate captivity" runs along the bottom of the image.

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, works of art & culture from 1928 will enter the public domain in the US, meaning they can be remixed & reused in new creative works. And 1928 was a big year, thanks to a famous mouse...

Join our celebrations: blog.archive.org/2023/12/05/w...

Orion Magazine - Landscape, Change, and the Long Road Ahead In Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic The Left Hand of Darkness, her main character, Genly Ai, lands on the remote planet called Gethen, also known as Winter. He

I squealed opening this link from @wfthomas.bsky.social, seeing this convergence of two titans of speculative fiction: @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social brilliantly describing the climate (and ethnographic) lens inherent in Ursula K. Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness:
www.orionmagazine.org/article/left...

'Still moving forward along the ice field' !!!

Is this the right platform for me to profess my love for referencing management software?

Royal Court theatre launches digital archive of every play performed there London venue’s online collection of performances dating back to 1956 will be free to use for writers, directors and the public

Royal Court theatre launches digital archive of every play performed there

New to bluesky 👩‍💻 👋
Any account suggestions as I build up a follow list?

I'm a new PhD student researching NZ/Aus Internet Art History and its preservation from Naarm/Melbourne. Interested in digi-pres, archiving, and contemporary art, but also sci-fi books & movies, cooking, and music 📖🍳🎧

I’m glad this exists: “Dead Web Club is an initiative to connect like-minded people with an interest in exploring the possibilities of the old web through its history, looking at research and artistic projects” www.deadweb.club