3 Oct
2013
3 Oct
'13
12:23 p.m.
On 02/10/13 23:55, Lori Emerson wrote:
The MAL is an open space for hands-on, experimental
research and teaching
actively using now-obsolete hardware and software. While the MAL does
concern itself with trying to maintain access to dead media (or zombie
media as nearly everything in the lab still functions) at the same as it
tries to preserve early works of digital art/literature created for these
dead media, it's still mostly preservation for the sake of active doing,
not to create yet another museum. Or if it is a museum, it's a museum
turned inside-out.
I am sure most of us on the list would regard software as a way
of
bringing hardware to life, but reading this it's actually the other way
around.
I know that TNMOC here like to encourage use of computers where
possible, but I think that is more to allow visitors to find out what it
was like "back in the day" rather than recreating a particular experience.
Very good; hopefully I will make it to that part of the world one day.
--
Lawrence Wilkinson lawrence at ljw.me.uk
The IBM 360/30 page http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360