👋Community

Preserving Immersive Media Group

The Preserving Immersive Media Group (PIMG) is a community and email list for those interested in collecting, preserving and stabilising artworks that utilise immersive media, including 360 video, real-time 3D, virtual reality and augmented reality. This group was born out of the ongoing Preserving Immersive Media project at Tate. We encourage all with an interest in these topics to join the PIMG email list on Groups.io. Members are welcome participate in discussion and to share any relevant information via the list, providing they agree to the PIMG Code of Conduct.

PIMG also runs regular events, recordings and outputs from which are made available online.

List of Immersive Media Preservation Projects

The purpose of this list is to show foster exchange and collaboration between projects exploring the preservation of immersive media materials and experiences. This is a growing list maintained by the community. If you are involved in an immersive media preservation project, please consider adding it.

Project	Host(s)	URL	Contact
Preserving Immersive Media	Tate, London, UK	https://www.tate.org.uk/about-us/projects/preserving-immersive-media	[e-mail] and [e-mail]

List of Immersive Media Artworks

This is a growing list maintained by the community. If you care for an immersive media artwork, please consider adding it.

The purpose of this list is to show the variety of artworks and technologies used, but also to foster exchange between conservators. The listed artworks are not necessarily well documented case studies. In the list below not only VR- or AR-based artworks are included, but also other interactive artworks that are produced with a game engine and hence require similar preservation strategies.

Artwork	Artists	Artwork date	Game Engine	Runtime	Game Engine, latest version (year)	Display	Interactivity	Institution owning artwork
Zone*Interdite	Wachter / Jud	2000, ongoing	Crystal Space	Windows 10	2012	Projection, U-shaped, plus flat screen for navigation	Navigation with joystick	HEK (House of Electronic Arts, Basel)
Passage Park #7: Relocate	Studer / van den Berg	2017	DarkBASIC Professional V1.05	Windows 7 / 10 with DirectX 9	2016	Projection 1920x1080,	Walkthrough (like a 360 Video). Looking around using a mouse	HEK (House of Electronic Arts, Basel)
We were looking for ourselves in each other	Mélodie Mousset	2015	Unity	Windows 10, Oculus Rift	under development	Oculus Rift Headset	Navigation with XBox Console as part of Oculus Rift	HEK (House of Electronic Arts, Basel)