Digital art preservation: Practical answers to theoretical issues

This paper gives an overview of the notions of authenticity, historicity and methodology in the digital art preservation field. These reflections result from a two-years research project on the preservation of complex digital objects. In this frame, I worked in close collaboration with the ZKM|Center for art and media technology in Karlsruhe, Germany, on the piece of digital art Interactive Plant Growing, to produce a preservation case study and a methodology proposal.