The fragility of technology-dependent works and their documentation: a case study of the work of Anna Barros

• Autor(a) principal: Landerdahl, Cristina
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Santos, Nara Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: DATJournal
• Texto Completo: https://datjournal.anhembi.br/dat/article/view/796
• topic: Arte contemporânea; Conservação e Preservação; Documentação; Anna Barros; Contemporary Art; Conservation and Preservation; Documentation; Anna Barros; Arte Contemporaneo; Conservación y Preservación; Documentación; Anna Barros

This article discusses issues relating to the conservation and preservation of digital artworks in contemporary times, based on the case study of the work “200 Milhões de Anos: Árvore Pedra” (2010), by Anna Barros. It is based on bibliographical research and a technical visit to a recognised museum in the field of digital preservation. The text addresses the obsolescence of digital works and the challenges of safeguarding them. It delimits the concepts of conserving and preserving; it presents a work in the process of recovery at the ZKM in Karlsruhe; it defends the importance of expanded documentation for the maintenance of digital works. It presents an initial analysis of Barros’ work in the MACT/UFSM space, which opened in August 2021. This is the first work in the museum’s collection to be catalogued in Tainacan and later in Archivematica. A cataloguing model based on the ZKM model, Wiki Werke, is also being used as internal documentation, also in Tainacan and later in Archivematica, to guarantee safeguarding.