The Archivisation, Presentation, and Dissemination of Cyber Art on the Web
The Archivisation, Presentation, and Dissemination of Cyber Art on the Web

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important problems concerning the dissemination of cyber arts is the “variable” and “unstable” character of that kind of art. The Web offers the possibility to create archive platforms for digital works of art. Yet perhaps instead of archives, we should rather talk about expanded virtual museums. The goal of such institutions would be the archivisation, presentation and dissemination of digital data about such types of artistic activity as, for example, interactive installations, genetic art, software art, virtual art, net art, transgenic art, telematics, etc. The Database of Virtual Art, Media Art Net, ArtBase, netzspannung.org and the archives of the international festivals for new media art (Ars Electronica, transmediale, DEAF) – are examples of the different strategies of the preservation and dissemination of digital art on the Web.

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