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Contribute a work

For institutions, artists, and collectors holding a born-digital work.

If you hold a software-based artwork — yours, your collection’s, or one you are responsible for — that no longer runs or that nobody dares to run, that work is the highest-leverage contribution you can make. Bundle it as a single zip with a short top-level description: title, artist, year, the runtime you believe it uses, the intended host system, display and peripherals, and how it was meant to behave. That description becomes a trusted, human-authored prior for the analysis.

What happens to a submitted work:

• The analysis module reads it end to end and produces a report: what it is, where it begins, what machine it needs, every network host it reaches for. You get that report back — it is useful even if nothing else happens.
• Where feasible, the work moves onto the workbench: an era-correct virtual machine, a revival attempt, and a written recipe for how to bring it back.
• We never destroy or modify the original; all work happens on copies. Nothing is published about your work without your agreement — anonymized by default, credited only if you want it.

Honesty about where we are: this is alpha software run by a small team at a museum, not a service with a guaranteed turnaround. Some works will resist revival; a report saying why is still a conservation result. Please confirm you hold the rights to share the material.