{"id":1925,"date":"2023-12-03T21:34:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T02:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/emg-review\/?page_id=1925"},"modified":"2026-06-13T16:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T20:01:21","slug":"preserving-documenting-and-exhibiting-siebren-versteegs-computer-based-artwork","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/emg-review\/volume-8-2023-2024\/preserving-documenting-and-exhibiting-siebren-versteegs-computer-based-artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserving, Documenting, and Exhibiting Siebren Versteeg&#8217;s Computer-Based Artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taylor Healy and Briana Feston-Brunet<br><em>Electronic Media Review, Volume Eight: 2023-2024<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/emg-review\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/06\/Vol_8_Ch_3_2023_Healy_Feston-Brunet_17.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"2320\">Abstract PDF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ABSTRACT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Neither There Nor There <\/em>(2005) is a computer-based artwork in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden\u2019s collection. It consists of two adjacent, wall-mounted LCD monitors and a custom-built computer. An executable computer program created in Macromedia Director by the artist, Siebren Versteeg (b. 1971), controls the images on the monitors. <em>Neither There Nor There<\/em> was over 15 years old and its components were in unknown condition. Preservation of computer-based artworks relies on the maintenance of its dependencies; where if one loses function or becomes obsolete, the intended behavior is compromised, or worse, the work cannot be activated. Computer-based artwork conservation practices have evolved significantly since the interventions and documentation conducted in 2014 by Hirshhorn time-based media fellows. This presentation will address updated preservation strategies including: identification of hardware and software dependencies, the creation of virtual access to the custom software, and documentation of artist-provided source code. Additionally, interventions including script error debugging, disk imaging hard-drives, and creating an exhibition copy will be described.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Healy and Briana Feston-BrunetElectronic Media Review, Volume Eight: 2023-2024Abstract PDF ABSTRACT Neither There Nor There (2005) is a computer-based artwork in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden\u2019s collection. It consists of two adjacent, wall-mounted LCD monitors and a custom-built computer. An executable computer program created in Macromedia Director by the artist, Siebren Versteeg (b. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/emg-review\/volume-8-2023-2024\/preserving-documenting-and-exhibiting-siebren-versteegs-computer-based-artwork\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preserving, Documenting, and Exhibiting Siebren Versteeg&#8217;s Computer-Based Artwork&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"parent":1892,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1925","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/emg-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/emg-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/emg-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/emg-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/emg-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/emg-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1925\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/emg-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/emg-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}