This exhibit, Le catalogue, is an art installation that consists of 24 photographs. Each time an image is opened, it is degraded by a line drawn through the image, so that each viewer actually sees a slightly different image. (The first image is older than the image below; the latter was taken from an image on a linked page.)
Selection decisions: These images were probably born digital, specifically created for the project. However, on other parts of the artist's sites there are references to print media, so I can't be sure. Preservation was not a concern; though the project itself is an interesting study on the longevity of digital media.
Metadata: Each image displays the IP address used to access it, the time accessed, and the x/y coordinates where the new line is drawn. Each image's filename appears to be some combination of date and sequence: 08-1990-B. For the entire collection, it is inferred that the artist presenting the exhibition is the photographer. The exhibit was posted in 2003.
Characteristics of the digital object: The images are JPGs and are the opposite of a "good" digital object, in that they are not persistent at all. Arguably the original object is preserved somewhere in its original form but it is not available online.
Audience: The audience is intended to be one who might visit an exhibit at an art museum and appreciates post-modern, technology-driven art. I think the exhibition is intended to provoke thoughts about the process of presentation rather than about the objects themselves.
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