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This is an important question. I read an article (can't find it now) about museums tackling this problem for their digital born art. The idea is to encapsulate the binaries that run the art in some way that is human readable, or at least, in a way where humans could re-engineer the software, so you don't run into issues where in a thousand years there are no more Flash players.

It's a hard problem if you consider long time scales.

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Maybe I didn't parse it but is there anything here that couldn't be preserved as a video? Video can be stored as a series of images, which can be (and often are) stored as a list of RGBA values. Those are as timeless as a WAV file (a series of amplitude values) or a vinyl record.

It would be trivial to read those 1e5 years from now, assuming we're still around and not living in caves.

But then you’re not preserving the interactive piece of work; you’re merely recording a performance of it.

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