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Artists ponder future of digital Mona Lisas

Posted in Digital Art | Posted on 01-19-2007 | 162 views

Here’s an interesting article that showcases the challenges of creating and preserving digital art.

BERKELEY, California (Reuters) – The world’s great art has long been chiseled into stone, painted onto canvas and set in architectural gems meant to last across the generations. Today, a growing number of artists use computers to create, and with technology changing fast, their digital visions could face obsolescence in just a few years. “I often joke with my students that digital media will last forever — or for five years, whichever comes first,” said Richard Rinehart, digital media director at the Berkeley university’s Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.
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