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This thing was constructed on April 18, 2007, and it was categorized as Commentary, NewMedia, art, progress.
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Art is not always easy to keep a hold of. NPR discusses the issues with preservation of digital art. Many of these issues come from the inherent connectedness of the medium. Digital art often exists in a digital ecosystem and removing it from the ecosystem (with all of its costs and parts) renders the piece useless.
Still, even works of art in traditional mediums require preservation. Patinas crack, paint fades, pieces get broken in the shuffle between showcase an storage. Even the buildings that house these works are not immune. The New York Times showcases the increasing cracks in the Guggenheim. Opened only in 1959, the building has collected cracks along its spiral facade mostly from seasonal temperature change. Art preservation is about keeping an evocative expression of idea frozen in time but is this even possible? Even with modern technology we can still only delay the inevitable.
