Author(s): Rubio, Fernando Dominguez; Wharton, Glenn | Abstract: Impermanence and fragility have become the defining conditions of the digital age. Technologies that were ubiquitous barely a decade ago, like floppy disks, now look like archaeological relics. It takes only a few years, if not months, before software environments are replaced by newer versions, often with limited backward compatibility. At the same time, digital technologies rely on hardware that has short life expectancy. The radical obsolescence of this new digital register raises a number of important questions. How are we going to prevent the fragile memories of contemporary digital cultures from receding into oblivion? This essay answers this question by looking at one of the institutions in which the problems associated with digital fragility are most especially felt, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and by exploring the ontological displacements that digital objects are operating at the heart of the museum.

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数字脆弱时代的艺术作品

作者：卢比奥、费尔南多·多明格斯；沃顿商学院，格伦 | 摘要：无常和脆弱已成为数字时代的决定性条件。十年前无处不在的技术，比如软盘，现在看起来像考古遗迹。软件环境被更新的版本取代之前只需要几年甚至几个月的时间，通常具有有限的向后兼容性。与此同时，数字技术依赖于预期寿命较短的硬件。这种新数字登记册的彻底过时引发了许多重要问题。我们将如何防止当代数字文化的脆弱记忆逐渐消失？本文通过研究最能感受到与数字脆弱性相关的问题的机构之一来回答这个问题，