Archiving new media arts in interactive digital space

Abstract

New media arts are an innovative genre of artworks in which artistic expression is explored and developed by the artist. This genre of new media arts is created in a vast number of ways. Currently, digitized collection systems are commonly used by galleries and museums for traditional art [1]. The need for documentation and archiving complex new media artworks is now increasingly crucial for future preservation and representation. This study aims to establish criteria of aesthetic media representation for media archived in an interactive digital space and explores a generic solution for an interactive digital space. Based on the Interactive Art Taxonomy [2], visitors to the digital space can create, interact, and experience the new media art. This taxonomy demonstrates that archiving of the content can take place for documentation and future preservation in the strategic context for the creation. This digital archiving process proposed will be a useful model to be adopted or adapted by universities, museums, and other institutions in terms of archiving media arts practices.