Talks & Papers
Talks I've given and papers I've written — mostly on museum technology, digital-art conservation, and exhibition infrastructure. Recordings are embedded on each page.
Full paper and talk at iPRES 2026, the 22nd International Conference on Digital Preservation: what six months of exhibition operation with eight browser-based artworks on twelve self-healing Windows XP VMs showed about where infrastructure helps and where it cannot.
Cover feature in IEEE Computer 59(9), special issue “Software Engineering in Generative Art”: how internet-dependent net art from the early web can be stabilised for daily exhibition operation — virtualization, snapshot recovery, monitoring, and local replacement services.
How you conserve a software-based artwork without ever touching the work itself: understand it, rebuild the environment underneath it, and keep the human in charge of every decision. Presented as part of the ZKM and Wüstenrot Stiftung restoration project.
How ZKM keeps a media-art museum switched on — projectors, sensors, legacy machines and self-healing artworks, from the first hacks to open-sourcing the control system.
How a multi-year browser-art research project became a ZKM exhibition — and how you make decades-old software-based artworks run autonomously on a gallery floor for months.