sasha arden spent their fourth year internship working with the Museum of Modern Art and Tate media conservation teams. Their focus in Preserving Immersive Media is on documentation methodologies and techniques. They graduated from NYU's conservation program in time-based media in 2022.

Having been involved in arts production, installation, and management throughout their career, sasha embraces the long-term thinking and development of appropriate stewardship practices in conservation while being informed by practical experience. Their ongoing research examines the intersection of technical capabilities and the philosophical and ethical questions arising through the conservation process, advocating for a holistic approach to the integrity of cultural assets.

Email: sasha.llyn.arden [at] gmail [dot] com

Eric Kaltman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at California State University Channel Islands. He is the founder of the Software History Futures and Technologies (SHFT) research group and investigates methodologies for the examination of historical software systems. Previously, he worked with software preservation and software collections at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California Santa Cruz.

Jack McConchie is a time-based media conservator at Tate. He has worked across loan, acquisitions and exhibition program areas including major retrospectives at Tate Modern such as Nam June Paik and Bruce Nauman. He has researched into the lives of complex artworks in the museum as part of the “Reshaping the Collectible” research project at Tate. Building on software-based artwork and video preservation strategies, he has recently co-authored a white paper that reports on Tate’s “Preserving Immersive Media” research project. Previously, Jack studied music and electronics at Glasgow university, worked as a musician and audio engineer, and collaborated on the design and fabrication of bespoke systems and components for artists working with time-based media.

Rasa Bocyte (she/her) is a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Her expertise lies in the areas of born-digital media preservation, access and reuse of heritage collections, and value chains in the creative and cultural industries. In her current role, she leads the development and execution of European research and innovation projects. Her background is in Archival and Information Studies and Art History.

Born Lithuanian, Mancunian at heart, resident of the Netherlands.

You can reach me on:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/rasa_bocyte

• Email: rbocyte [at] beeldengeluid.nl

Tom Ensom (he/him) is a London-based Digital Conservator specialising in the conservation of software-based art. He works with those caring for software-based art to research, develop and implement strategies for its long-term preservation. He currently works primarily with Tate’s Time-based Media Conservation team, where he has helped develop their conservation strategy for software-based art and works on the acquisition of a wide range of time-based media artworks. His current research focus is the preservation of artworks which employ real-time 3D software and immersive media (XR) technologies.

You can reach me on:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_Ensom

• Email: tomensom [at] gmail.com

Knowledge Base content I'm currently working on:

• Unreal Engine 4 related resources

• Introduction to Real-Time 3D

• Introduction to Virtual Reality

Thank you to all those who have generously given their time and knowledge to help shape the Knowledge Base!

• sasha arden

• Rasa Boycte

• Tom Ensom

• Eric Kaltman

• Jack McConchie

• Jesse de Vos

• Samantha Rowe

• Claudia Roeck

• WinZs

Jesse de Vos worked as a project manager and researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. His research activities related to web archiving, game archiving and complex media preservation.

Image by Ziko van Dijk - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37917581

Samantha Rowe is the Digital Archivist and Research Associate of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. (WPI). She prepares, describes, arranges, and conducts item-level processing of digital archival materials using the WPI’s relational database to provide free public access to over 50,000 significant art historical resources and research materials on its growing digital platform. She holds an M.S.L.I.S. from Long Island University and M.A. in History of Art from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

E-mail: samantha.h.rowe [at] gmail.com