Part 4. Poster & Artist Statement

Artist Statement

“Di.Preserve” is a generative art interactive installation which expressing on the topic regarding digital preservation.  It is mainly focus on the issue of the challenges faced by digital preservation. “Di.Preserve” the name came from the words “digital preservation”; it is also a mixture of Malay language and English language which carried the meaning of being preserve. Digital preservation is a series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary.  It involves planning, resource allocation, and application of preservation methods and technologies to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable regardless of the challenges of media failure and technological change. People, businesses, institutions and governments are investing time and effort to create digital information for instantaneous access to everyone. Therefore, preserving digital materials is being neglected and we cannot guarantee the continued preservation and accessibility of digital information generated in this context of rapid technological advances. “Di.Preserve” will express this message through visual metaphor. The outcome of the generative art will be determined by the parameters which control by the user. Each parameters represent different type of challenges faced by digital preservation. The generative art generated are a symbol of the condition of digital preservation which followed the algorithm that involving the parameters. It means that the parameters (challenges) will affect the algorithm of the generative art, hence change the output of the generative art (condition of digital preservation). At the end of interacting with the installation, users are able to generate their very own generative art which respond to digital preservation and have it upload to their facebook. By somehow “preserving” the image of the generative art they created, users might question themselves critically regarding 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?