What Happens When an Artist's Technology Becomes Obsolete?
Curators and conservators are working to save — and update — art made with aging hardware.
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Curators and conservators are working to save — and update — art made with aging hardware.
Digital art has never been more fragile, as the emerging technologies it relies on are becoming even tricker for experts to fix.
An advanced version of the technology used to create DVDs and Blu-rays can store far more data, though it takes a while
Why the end of Flash animation marks the end of an era for creativity on the web A message to uninstall Flash appears above a Flash-based work of art by Rafaël Rozendaal titled “Future Physics,” from 2007. (Screengrab by Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times) It was a tale of sex and death and Teletubbies. In 1998, programmer and animator Tom Fulp released an online video game titled “Teletubby Fun Land” that featured the characters from the British children’s television program getting drunk and stoned and engaged in acts of devil worship. One of the game’s narratives ...