The preservation of net art requires an approach quite different from traditional objects, time based media, or conceptual art. With works located in between fine art and performance art, it is sometimes difficult to define what their boundaries are, in what technological and cultural context they need to exist, and how they can be historicized. Preservation Director Dragan Espenschied of Rhizome, a born-digital arts non-profit founded in 1996 on the internet, will introduce strategies and productive abstractions to handle the institution's ever-growing holdings of 2000+ net art pieces.
