Preserving Digital Artworks From Deterioration And Obsolescence

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This problem has haunted new media art and troubled its position in the art world as well as its market for decades. New media art dealer Kelani Nichole thinks she may have found a fix. Nichole has been dealing new media art since she founded Transfer Art Gallery in 2013, championing artists like Rosa Menkman, Lorna Mills, and Carla Gannis. As Nichole put it, the Data Trust tries to answer a big question: how do we take back the value of our data from Big Tech? Yet, as I learned more about the Data Trust and its quest for digital permanence, it became clearer why the gatekeepers–an ungenerous title for experts–exist.