Post #1325752
2023-05-06 08:10 UTC
@despens I really liked those examples of how "blurry" net artworks were transformed by incorporating documentation practices (like caching).
Have you ever considered/tried configuring similar pieces to to talk to the external web through a recording proxy (e.g. pywb)? Depending on the deployment I guess there could be privacy issues related to doing that instead of caching only what is needed for the performance?
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@despens@digipres.club 2023-05-06 08:31
@edsu Yes, the Hans Haacke piece described in the article was talking to the web through @webrecorder's pywb recording proxy, which is just excellent. Privacy problems due to "dragnet capture" is not so much an issue if you're mainly focusing on API calls, as they don't trigger all the requests that access via a browser or crawler would. Also, the artwork-specific web archives are not necessarily publicly accessible in the same way a classic web archive would.