{"id":1263,"date":"2006-08-03T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T21:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2006-08-03T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T21:35:12","slug":"variable-media-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Variable Media Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/variable-media-s.jpg\" alt=\"Variable Media\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variablemedia.net\/\">Variable Media Network<\/a> is joint project by the Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation to look at models for preserving &#8220;performance, conceptual art, installations and, of course, artwork incorporating technological elements or relying on structures or networks that are themselves very unstable.&#8221; The project has online case studies and has published a edited book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variablemedia.net\/e\/preserving\/html\/var_pub_index.html\">Permanence Through Change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This concept (variable media) suggests considering the description of works independently of the media used to create them. Rather than list a work&#8217;s physical components, the variable media approach is to understand the work&#8217;s behavioural characteristics and intrinsic effects. (Variable Media Concept as developed by Jon Ippolito, quoted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fondation-langlois.org\/html\/e\/page.php?NumPage=98\">Fondation Daniel Langlois<\/a> page.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The idea if preserving variation and behaviour instead of stable media makes sense as a strategy for documenting interactive works, even beyond new media art, like computer games and electronic literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Variable Media Network is joint project by the Guggenheim Museum and the Daniel Langlois Foundation to look at models for preserving &#8220;performance, conceptual art, installations and, of course, artwork incorporating technological elements or relying on structures or networks that are themselves very unstable.&#8221; The project has online case studies and has published a edited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Variable Media Network<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}