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'Although several international #museums collected their first works of video art in the late 1970s [...] the field of time-based media conservation did not truly emerge for another 20 years when the nature of the degradation these works can undergo was beginning to emerge [...] and the field is still evolving, as are some of the artworks that need to be conserved.'
@sciurus Indeed. And then you have the point Lawrence Lessig makes about film canisters in Free Culture, that even if they're archived they'll just end up full of dust if there's no further effort to preserve them.
@GardenOfForkingPaths amazing how virtually all pre 1970 BBC TV was erased and recorded over. I'd give my eye teeth for a copy of the 1969 The Possessed miniseries (Dostoevsky) https://imdb.com/title/tt0066703/ or even the 1964 Brothers Karamazov miniseries