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From analogue to digital: preserving early computer-generated art in the V&A’s collections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Douglas Dodds
Douglas Dodds*
Affiliation:
Word & Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London SW7 2RL, UK
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Abstract

The Victoria and Albert Museum holds the UK’s emerging national collection of early computer-generated art and design. Many of the earliest works only survive on paper, but the V&A also holds some born-digital material. The Museum is currently involved in a project to digitise the computer art collections and to make the information available online. Artworks, books and ephemera from the Patric Prince Collection and the archives of the Computer Arts Society are included in a V&A display on the history of computer-generated art, entitled Digital pioneers. In addition, the project is contributing to the development of the Museum’s procedures for dealing with time-based media.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , 2010 , pp. 10 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2010

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