My practicum project centered on expanding Rhizome’s software emulation framework by building and configuring a Mac OS 9.2.1 emulation environment using the open-source emulator software, QEMU, to support the preservation of digital and net art created prior to 2001. The poster I created details a brief history of Mac OS, emulation as a digital preservation strategy, and the process I experienced learning to create and use emulators.
Samie Konet (b.1994, Cleveland, OH) is an archivist, artist, and technologist based in New York City. Konet’s expanded practice involves archival projects using linked data to enhance art-historical data, emulation as a strategy for digital preservation, and how embodied knowledge presents as a form of technological literacy.