Slideshow: How to Preserve Digital Art
Digital art is so ephemeral that often viewers don't get a chance to see it before it disappears. A new project is proposing a set of rules to document and preserve variable media art, before it slips away. By Kendra Mayfield.
Mark Napier's "Net Flag" (2001) is an interactive Java applet that provides an interface for the creation of a hypothetical flag for the Internet. Visitors to the website can combine the geometric elements of a wide assortment of international flags to create a unique, hybrid flag to serve as an emblem for the Internet's dissolution of national boundaries. The work is a future commission of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
