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Archiving Digital Artwork For Museum Purchase?
An anonymous reader writes "I am an artist working with 3d software to create animations and digital prints. For now my work just gets put on screening DVDs and BluRays and the original .mov and 3d files get backed up. But museums and big art collectors do want to purchase these animations. However as we all know archival DVDs are not really archival. So I want to ask the Slashdot readers, what can I give to the museum when they acquire my digital work for their collection so that it can last and be seen long after I am dead? No other artist or institution I know of have come up with any real solution to this issue yet, so I thought Slashdot readers may have an idea. These editions can be sold for a large amount of money, so it doesn't have to be a cheap solution."
How about some of that fancy holographic cube storage I've been hearing about?
At least if it fails it'll be pretty to look at!
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Hey, it worked for Jean Luc Picard when he was trapped in the 19th Century!
That's nothing... I had to restrain myself from taggin it "getarealjob" ;^)
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So I want to ask the Slashdot readers, what can I give to the museum when they acquire my digital work for their collection so that it can last and be seen long after I am dead?
Digital art can't be easily copied? That's a pretty novel claim! :D
You just got troll'd!
Oh wait crap, understood your post the wrong way around :-(
You just got troll'd!
"...but once you're dead who cares. Right? :)"
Are you kidding? That's when his work becomes its most valuable. He'll be rich!
Whoever added that tag, the only connection you've got to art are the lead paint chips you ate as a child.
mmmmm lead paint chips :)~
Have you tried them with library paste sauce and a side of crayons? Delicious!
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This topic comes up every couple years or so. There is a good thread about archival media that is still surprisingly relevant today. My original response to the question is available here. "For my clients, I always suggest the use of stone and / or clay tablets for all mission critical data archive projects, regardless of size or scope. Bablyonian and Greek models of data retention from as far back as 4,500 years ago are (in many cases) superior to the models we commonly use today, with much of the physical media having survived electrical storms, tornadoes, floods, fires, and wars on every scale imaginable with a data corruption rate of zero and without the benefit of a climate controlled room, dedicated security staff, or even a closet for media storage. Imagine the elegance of a 84'3/4 STROM (Stone Tablet Read Only Memory) machine hooked up to your Slackware Archive server for performing restorations, and the ST Binary Writer you have networked to your backup systems and kept physically over by the quarry... nice! The TCO for slab is far less than that of tape archives, considering you can store the media in a pile of mud and hose it down when you are ready for a restoration." M
Rich? Well... at least his cost of living will go down.