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<meta property='og:title' content="Archiving Artist-Run Sites">
<meta property='og:description' content="preserve the online activities of DIY and artist-run communities.">
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<a href='./'><p>🗃️ Archiving Artist-Run Spaces</p></a>
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<p><a href='.'>Home</a> <a href='./about.html'>About</a> <a href='./archives.html'>Archives</a> <a href='./resources.html'>Resources</a> <a href='./reading.html'>Reading</a> <a href='./devlog.html'>Log</a> </p>
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<h1 id="about">About</h1>
<p>Archiving Artist-Run Spaces was created as a resource for
experimental artist communities, both physical spaces as well as
online-only creator communities, to build archives of their
activities.</p>
<p>It is based on my two decades of experience working in DIY spaces and
artist-run communities and identifying unmet needs in the space. Just as
these spaces attempt to carve out their own place in the world and make
their own home and culture, there is a mismatch with their values when
artist-run communities use commercial platforms for presenting or
hosting their work. Just as an art space could be forced to close due to
rising rents, many platforms have come and gone over the years, changed
their business models, or sites or passwords have been misplaced.
Recognizing that many exhibits, images, articles, web-based projects,
and documentation disappears due to link rot this site’s goal is to help
artist-run communities think through the value of what they’re engaged
in and how they may want to strategically preserve some aspect of
themselves online. This project isn’t meant to replace the needs for
professional archivists but rather to provide possibilities in the DIY
spirit of these communities who often rely on the strength of their own
networks.</p>
<h2 id="about-the-design-of-this-site">About the design of this
site</h2>
<p>This site was made with homemade, simple and open source tools with
an eye toward creating an attractive website minimizing bandwidth and
maximizing readability and longevity of the site. The pages are written
in markdown, a lightweight language that is mostly just plaintext with
some formatting marks, so it can be scanned and read itself, or rendered
to a static HTML page. You are either reading this as the static website
or as a markdown text file right now.</p>
<p>The style of the page is meant to reflect these values. No external
fonts are loaded. Visitors will see default typefaces. The logo is a
system emoji. There is no tracking on the website, no ads and no
cookies. As far as one can know, no Google, Facebook, or Amazon
resources have been used.</p>
<p>The style reflects maximizing text and making it easy to read and
scan a page with your eyes or with page scanners. A palette of 8 colors
was selected from lospec.com.</p>
<p>No Javascript is required to view or navigate the site. Media queries
are used to resize the font for readability on small screens. Where
possible, images have been compressed to support minimizing page
load.</p>
<p>Pages are written in markdown and converted to html with a simple
homemade static generator based on the free libre program Pandoc.</p>
<p>Other sites whose design inspired the design of this site:</p>
<p><a href="https://brutalistwebsites.com/">Brutalist Websites</a>, <a
href="https://text.npr.org/">Text-only NPR</a>, <a
href="https://interviews.commoninternet.net/">Solidarity Infrastructure
Interviews</a>, <a
href="https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-low-tech-website/">Low
Tech Magazine’s Low-tech Website</a>, <a
href="https://buttondown.email/leetusman/archive/">Buttondown archived
posts</a>, <a href="https://compudanzas.net">Compudanzas</a>, <a
href="https://forum.merveilles.town">Cerca forum</a>,</p>
<h3 id="credits">Credits</h3>
<p>This site was made by <a href="https://leetusman.com">Lee Tusman</a>.
Archiving Artist-Run Spaces is a project by Lee Tusman and its design
and content are shared under the <a
href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License">Peer
Production License</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://bycalebstone.com/">Caleb Stone</a> designed and did
programming for <a href="https://experimentalarchive.space">Experimental
Archive Space</a> and <a href="https://gas.gallery">Gas</a>. <a
href="https://www.andrewleclair.com/">Andrew LeClair</a> provided design
support for Gas. Amelia Marzec helped debug Gas. Peter Erickson
co-organized the Little Berlin archive.</p>
<p>Thanks to Ceci Moss for directing Gas and working with us to build
the archive.</p>
<p>Thanks to the many photographers, writers, videographers
documenting.</p>
<p>Thanks to the many artists of these special spaces, including
everyone at Space 1026, Babycastles and Flux Factory. Thanks to <a
href="https://webring.xxiivv.com/">Merveilles</a> for ongoing web
community. Eli Mellen graciously gave helpful advice.</p>
<p>The <a href="copyright.html">copyright</a> guide was created by Batya
Kemper and Lindsay Harris at NYU’s Technology Law & Policy
Clinic.</p>
<p><a href="https://lospec.com/palette-list/sea-sorcerer">Color palette
Sea Sorcerer</a> by Noah Rowlands.</p>
<p>Site architecture and header and footer design adapted from <a
href="https://compudanzas.net/">Compudanzas</a>.</p>
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<p>Texts, images, and site code are shared with the <a href='https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production_License' target=_blank rel='external noreferrer noopener' title='Peer Production License'>Peer Production License</a>.</p>
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