Maintenance Culture is a project by Myriad, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to address challenges related to preserving complex, born-digital, creative works in small institutions. Myriad and collaborators will create and present an innovative, collaborative, digital preservation training program, expanding on existing curricula to specifically cover preserving time-based media art and other complex, born-digital works.
Coming Soon! MaintenanceCulture.org
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Coming Soon! MaintenanceCulture.org 〰️
The 2023 cycle of Maintenance Culture workshops has come to a close. The project’s digital preservation field guide, as well as other free tools and resources on collecting and caring for complex, born-digital creative works, will be available on the new MaintenanceCulture.org website in April of 2024.
Continue to check back here for more details and updates.
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Join a Maintenance Culture Community
We’re building communities in 6 different cities, where we’re hosting workshops and skillshare events in 2023. Find your closest city below to sign up for updates and get involved in your local Maintenance Culture community.
Project Outcomes
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Workshops & Skillshares
6 hybrid in-person & virtual digital preservation workshops in Baltimore, Houston, Los Angeles, the Midwest, New Orleans, and Seattle. Skillshares will be held in each city in conjunction with the workshops.
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Communities
Connections between creators, galleries, memory institutions, and others interested in preserving complex, born-digital works.
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Tools and Resources
A Field Guide, Workbook, Zine, and other tools and resources will be developed for creators, institutions, galleries, and others invested in preserving born-digital, creative works.
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White Paper
Map of past and current projects addressing digital preservation of complex creative works, and recommending strategies for sustainability
Collaborators
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Elena Cordova, Project Director
Frances Harrell, Grant Administrator and Executive Director of Myriad
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Baltimore Siobhan Hagan, Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive
Detroit Kristin MacDonough, Art Institute of Chicago and Yvette Ramírez, Doctoral Student at the School of Information, University of Michigan
Houston Emily Vinson, University of Houston
Los Angeles Joey Heinen, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
New Orleans Ashley Shabankareh, Trombone Shorty Foundation
Seattle Libby Hopfauf, Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound -
Ashley Blewer, Daily
Darius Kazemi, Meedan
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, NYU Tisch
Joana Stillwell, Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive
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Eddy Colloton, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Joey Heinen, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Julia Kim, National Library for the Blind and Print Disabled
Lorena Ramirez-Lopez, Webrecorder
Mary Kidd, New York Public Library -
Danielle Spalenka, Filson Historical Society
Jessica Bitely, Boston Public Library
Margo Padilla, New York Historical Society
Stacey Erdman, Arizona State University
Connect
Join a Maintenance Culture Community near you, or connect with Maintenance Culture virtually through our blog, newsletter, or Discord server.
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Maintenance Culture has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed on this website do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.