Phil Mohun

You know, we've been trying to get them to come by, so if anyone's got a line, please send them before June 28th.

Yeah, none of those words are in the Bible.

You know, one of the challenges with creating digital art or using technology in general to create art, and there's a long tradition of this, you know, technology sort of begets new artistic movements.

And the beginning of these movements sort of have to grapple with technology

they're not being good categories or they're not being institutions that are purpose-built for them.

And in many of the conversations that we had with digital artists, they were trying to go to existing institutions and explain their work or explain, hey, I can use software or computers or computation to create these amazing works of art that make people feel things or make people see a future that only I can see.

And the response that they got from institutions consistently was either we don't understand it or we have an opening in five years and maybe we'll talk to you then.

Or even if they were interested and it wasn't pure apathy, our IT department can, and it's like this totally out of scope of what they're built for.

And so this focus on preservation and around keeping the art available is a big part of what we do at Node.

And I think that so much of what we build, and if you look at the history of software, it's all of these projects that get built, and they're amazing at the time, and then they're discarded.

And art can't be like that.

It has to exist for generations.

And so that's part of what we're trying to do.