Fast Company interviews Ippolito for report on digital art curation
Jon Ippolito, a new media professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Fast Company article, “From Cory Arcangel to ‘Pac-Man’: How digital art curators save vintage data and hardware.” New media art has become popular enough with collectors to sell for thousands of dollars and digital art is often seen as a way to interest younger generations in art museums, according to the article. But without effective conservation techniques, it’s hard to know if the artworks will survive long enough for collectors and future museum visitors to appreciate, the article states. “There is nothing to indicate that somehow this process is slowing down and maybe becoming stable,” Ippolito said. “If anything, they’re becoming more unstable, and the conservators are just racing to find ways to capture them.”