Post, Colin

This dissertation explores how artists creatively engaged with digital and networked technologies care for their artworks and related studio or personal archival materials. As digital and new media artworks frequently face preservation concerns and require regular maintenance sh…

The thesis discusses three artist-made browsers from the late 1990s. As the Web transitioned from a niche information system to global telecommunications infrastructure, these artists created functional software that explored the socioeconomic, political, and cultural ramificati…