By Jacquelyn Lewis, Published: August 2, 2007
NEW YORK— No one can pinpoint the exact moment the new era began—when museums had to start seriously addressing the conservation challenges that come with the increasing appearance of digital art in major collections—but new media expert Richard Rinehart thinks the tide turned, appropriately, somewhere around the dawn of the new millennium. “Digital art had been collected by a few museums, such as the Walker Art Center, but it was really at the turn of the century when long-term preservation became widely recognized as a big problem,” said Rinehart, digital media director and adjunct curator at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and associate director for public programs at the Berkeley Center for New Media.
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