Anna Mladentseva

This week we are visiting with emerging conservation professional Anna Mladentseva. Throughout the course of her undergraduate and masters studies at University College London, Anna has been building some very fresh philosophical and ethical frameworks for how we think about the conservation of software based art, net art in particular, and her perspective is refreshingly grounded in a very sort of hands-on technical approach. In our chat we delve into the ins and outs of studing Flash, reframing how we think about an artist’s relationship to their source code, and what it means when a conservator is flagged as a hacker :-) Our chat finds Anna just wrapping up her graduate degree, and about to embark on her doctorate studies where she will be (among other things) studying the digital collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Tune in to hear Anna’s story!Links from the conversation with Anna> Anna’s paper “Responding to obsolescence in Flash-based net art: a case study on migrating Sinae Kim’s Genesis” https://doi.org/10.1080/19455224.2021.2007412> Fetchish Magazine: https://www.fetchish.net/Get access to exlusive content - join us on Patreon!> https://patreon.com/artobsolescenceJoin the conversation:https://twitter.com/ArtObsolescencehttps://www.instagram.com/artobsolescence/Support artistsArt and Obsolescence is a non-profit podcast, sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and we are committed to equitably supporting artists that come on the show. Help support our work by making a tax deductible gift through NYFA here: https://www.artandobsolescence.com/donate