[game_preservation] games for art's sake - documentation

[Andrew Armstrong]

Sounds awesome Melanie. Keep us (or me at least) up to date on the stuff 
there, I was waiting until it "came online" for the last few months! 
I'll put this on the blog tomorrow when I have a chance to write up 
something good.

If you need another curator/metadata editor I can lend a hand, although 
I've really got my hands full I guess updating 5,000 entries with 
correct data in the current collections (eeek!)

Andrew

Melanie Swalwell wrote:

> Apologies for x-postings.

>

> A new game video collection at the Internet Archive - games for art's sake.

>

> We are pleased to announce a new game video collection hosted by the

> Internet Archive, called "games for art's sake" -

> http://www.archive.org/details/game-art.  This is devoted to providing

> online documentation of both individual works and exhibitions of game

> art, art games and related work made "for art's sake".

>

> Games constitute a large and important field of contemporary art.  How

> this art will withstand the passage of time remains an open question.

> This collection is intended to provide a stable and enduring site for

> the hosting of documentation about games made for art's sake.

>

> Artists, curators and others with relevant documentation of game art

> are encouraged to contribute their files to the collection.  To do

> this, first upload them to the Internet Archive's open source video

> collection, using the tool at http://www.archive.org/create/.  Then

> email us at <gamesforartssake at gmail.com> and we will moved them into

> the "games for art's sake" collection.  This will be viewable at

> http://www.archive.org/details/game-art

>

> Julian Oliver

> Helen Stuckey

> Melanie Swalwell

>

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