Responding to obsolescence in Flash-based net art: a case study on migrating Sinae Kim’s Genesis

IF 0.5 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Journal of the Institute of Conservation Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/19455224.2021.2007412

Anna Mladentseva

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Abstract Many internet artworks from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s used Adobe Flash technology for creating animated content. However, in the light of recent web standard developments (HTML5), Adobe has stopped supporting Flash and its related tools. The removal of Flash has made those net artworks non-functional and unviewable, including Sinae Kim’s Genesis (2001), the focus of this study. Recently proposed emulation- and virtualisation-based strategies are not always suitable, particularly if there is a desire to keep the artwork on the ‘live web’. This article outlines an alternative method of migration facilitated by reverse engineering techniques—specifically decompilation—and foregrounds the significance of maintaining online access to the obsolete Adobe Shockwave Flash (SWF) files through the source code. On this premise, the source code is re-imagined as a site for further re-enactment, allowing a departure from its current role as a marker of ‘authenticity’.

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应对Flash网络艺术的过时——以金的《创世纪》为例

摘要从20世纪90年代中期到21世纪初，许多互联网艺术品使用Adobe Flash技术创作动画内容。然而，鉴于最近的网络标准发展（HTML5），Adobe已经停止支持Flash及其相关工具。Flash的移除使这些网络艺术品失去了功能性和不可观看性，包括金的《创世纪》（2001），这是本研究的重点。最近提出的基于仿真和虚拟化的策略并不总是合适的，特别是如果有人希望将艺术品保留在“实时网络”上。本文概述了一种由逆向工程技术（特别是反编译）促进的替代迁移方法，并强调了通过源代码保持对过时的Adobe Shockwave Flash（SWF）文件的在线访问的重要性。在这个前提下，源代码被重新想象为一个可以进一步重新制定的网站，从而偏离了它目前作为“真实性”标志的角色。

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Journal of the Institute of Conservation HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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