Part 3. Final Execution Idea

Among the rough idea for possible execution, idea 7 had been chosen to proceed with developing the project. Below is the execution idea improvement and development:

The installation art will be focus in expressing all the challenges faced by digital preservation. The challenges which are point out in the installation are, being able to create contents easily, the increasing scale of digital content, technologies for mass storage of digital information lagging behind, digital obsolescence, rapid changes in technology and finally absence of established standards. A generative art will be created as a symbol of the condition or status of digital preservation. There will be a certain algorithm which decides the looks of the generative art. An equation between condition of preservation and all the challenges is created. This equation will be store as a data which will change the generative art algorithm thus it affects the generative art fractals. The condition of digital preservation and challenges and convert into number data as below: -          Condition of digital preservation: 0.0 – 1.0 0.0 being the worst condition, 1.0 being the best condition. -          Digital contents created easily: 0.0 – 1.0 0.0 being the least digital contents to preserve, 1.0 being the most digital contents to preserve. -          Scale of digital content: 0.0 – 1.0 0.0 being the smallest scale, 1.0 being the biggest scale. -          Technologies for mass storage lagging: 0.0 – 1.0 0.0 being the technologies lagging the least, 1.0 being the technologies lagging the most. -          Digital obsolescence: 0.0 – 1.0 0.0 being the least obsolescence, 1.0 being the most obsolescence. -          Rapid changes of technology: 0.0 – 1.0 0.0 being the least changes of technology, 1.0 being the most changes of technology. -          Absence of established standards: 0.0 – 1.0 0.0 being the least absence, 1.0 being the most absence. All these numbers data above will be using in order to create the algorithm of the generative art. To ensure that there is engagement and interactivity between the user and the installation. The user will be able to experiment with the number data of the challenges; they are able to either increase or decrease those “challenges”. In another words, it means that the users are controlling the “challenge” and affecting the condition of “digital preservation” while interacting with “Di.Preserve”. In order to increase the experience of interactivity, user will not be operating the application by using keyboard and mouse. There will be 6 potential meters setup at the installation, and each potential meter represents different challenges. And besides being able to control the potential meter, there will also have a gyro scope setup on the installation. The gyro scope will be installed inside a sphere. By rotating the sphere, the user can rotate the generative art in 360 degree. At the end of playing with the installation, user will have the chance to screen capture the genetic art they had created and upload it to the facebook. User can simply press the gyro scope sphere, and a window of login and upload will pop up at the monitor. The purpose of uploading it to social media is like letting the user able to “preserve” their artwork into their social media. To wrap up, “Di.Preserve” is an interactive generative art application which enables the user to generate their own generative art. What the user controlling is the challenges faced by digital preservation, what they see in the monitor is the condition of digital preservation. Through controlling the challenges, user will be able to know that what kind of challenges is facing and how fragile and unsustainable is digital preservation. By being able to upload the generative art to social media, it will make the user to question themselves critically regarding the issue of digital preservation. Question such as how long will this image being store in the facebook? Will this image gone forever if facebook is close down? Should I save a back up of this image in my pc beside have it upload to facebook? Should I save this image to my digital storage media other than just my pc? Should the facebook preserve it for me, or should I?