Technological Arts Preservation

Today, the interest in new media technologies such as digital media, video, interactive art, computer graphics and animations is rapidly increasing, the question of how to move such artworks into the future will be sought considering the rapid transformation in technology.

DigitalSSM, which deems art and knowledge as a legacy and promotes digital archiving by developing a new strategy for preserving them and making them accessible, started its leading project “Technological Arts Preservation” with a panel in November 2019.

Digilogue, which deals with ‘digital transformation’, one of today’s most striking topics, is answering the question, “How long can digital art survive?” with the professionals of the field by contributing to the project “Technological Arts Preservation” which is initiated on the basis of this theme by digitalSSM, the archive and research organization of Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum. Digilogue aims to add a new perspective to this program by starting from the projects it has carried out in the name of digitalization and the network it has acquired in this context.

SSM, who started the program with a panel called “How Digital Art Will Be Carried into The Future” on November 15th 2019, has dealt with striking topics like “Software-based Artworks Preservation” or “Internet Art Preservation”. On November 16th, it organized a workshop themed “Time-based Media Conservation” with the participation of important names from both local and international organizations. The project continued with the conference themed “How Digital Artworks Resist Time” and it put an emphasis on “The Reconstruction of Media and Digital Artworks in the Context of Media Archaeology”.