Practice question · True or false
Conservation of a code-based work is closer to emulation and migration than to cleaning and repair.
Hints
- Ask what fails first in such a work.
- The environment it runs in stops existing.
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True
Why
True. What fails is not the material but the environment: a board, a sensor, an operating system. Keeping the work alive means running it on something else, which is why documenting the intent rather than only the implementation is what allows a future custodian to rebuild it.
Practise Multidisciplinary Processes
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More questions on Multidisciplinary Processes
- Why is sound a curatorial problem before it is an aesthetic one in a group exhibition?
- Sort each cost by the medium that brings it.
- Which does digital fabrication actually change about sculptural practice?
- How many of the additions listed in this lesson bring an obsolescence problem measured in years rather than…
- Complete the account of multidisciplinary work.
- Match each medium to what it adds to a sculptural work.
- Arrange these stages of caring for a code-based work in order.
- Adding a medium such as light or movement brings a one-off installation cost but no ongoing obligation.
- Digital fabrication alters the iteration and scaling of three-dimensional form, but leaves material behaviour…