Digital Decay

TL;DR — Bruce Sterling’s keynote at the Guggenheim’s 2001 Preserving the Immaterial conference, on why digital art and media rot so fast.

A transcript of Sterling’s keynote at “Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on Variable Media,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, March 30–31, 2001, printed in English and French. He opens by asking why a science-fiction writer likes spending time with museum curators, and answers that futurists and antiquarians are in the same business.

What it is: a talk transcript, 13 pages. It speaks directly to the reason this library exists.

Where this came from

• r/obscurePDFs post, February 2020 — “Digital Decay: transcript of Bruce Sterling’s keynote address at “Preserving the Immaterial” conference”. Routing record: The obscurePDFs Subreddit

13 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.