Stunned.org trying to shame Arts Council into preserving ten years of Online Art at Arthouse

national | miscellaneous | news report Sunday September 01, 2002 14:42 by Blisset (slight return)

Article from Stunned.org weblog

The last hurrah of the Arthouse closure took place over the weekend with the auction of the buildings contents. I didn't attend but by all accounts it was pretty crazy. Among the contents were the servers which hosted the website which contained the results of years worht of artists' residencies and Arthouse assisted projects. We wouldn't throw paintings in a skip so why is deleting digital art OK? Call me a pessimist but I saw this coming and took the precaution of downloading the site to save this work and to keep this important record of digital art practise in Ireland available as a resource for all. I see this as a temporary measure until a more permanent solution can be found, it was a rush job so please forgive any glitches.

On Saturday 24th August 2002 the Arthouse Servers went down after ten years. Those servers contained art made during Arthouse residencies, some of which only existed on the Arthouse site. At Stunned we feared this might happen so we took the precaution of downloading the Arthouse site to save this work and to keep this important record of digital art practise in Ireland available as a resource for all.

We see this as a temporary measure until a more permanant solution can be found. Only the artistic programme archive is available.

This was a rush job so please forgive any glitches.

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