Alex May, "On the Preservation of Digital Art" (2012)

"you don't see ice-sculptors requiring buyers to have refrigerated galleries"

May writes about preservation issues of digital art from the perspective of an artist, providing examples of his own experience and of other artists such as Marina Abramovic, asking questions of materiality and code, the longevity of the art work itself and the preservation of the presentation context/experience.

(full article on http://www.imperica.com/viewpoint/on-the-preservation-of-digital-art, May 2012)