Lab Notes
Lab Notes
Dated notes from the bench — releases, revivals, milestones, and findings.
- The whole family in one clone — first public release v2026.08.06 on github.com/zkmkarlsruhe: all seven repositories, one recursive clone; honest statuses included.
- Code-level understanding milestone Query-first code semantics live-benchmarked across 12 works; authored-text extraction across all languages; the orient-phase judge merged.
- macOS 10.6 joins the golden catalog Snow Leopard guest support, including the in-guest agent, built for a Max/MSP conservation case.
- The exhibition handoff lands The workbench hands a verified, baked single-image zip to the exhibition controller; proven end to end against a real golden image.
- A Director-era net.art work revived end to end From a Mac PPC original to a stable Windows XP projector build, driven through the full analysis-to-workbench pipeline.
- Whitepaper draft published "Preserving a born-digital work means not archiving its files but keeping a living system able to run it." Shared early, to invite collaboration.
- artwork-autopsy begins Automated understanding: tear a bundle apart, list what it is, what it needs, every host it calls — before a VM ever boots.
- The research workbench begins research-vm-controller first commit: from keeping one known-good state alive to exposing every state for study.
- The supporting cast ships filterdns (2026-01-31), wayback-cache-proxy (2026-02-14), netart-extinction (2026-03-27) — the small tools around the controller, released.
- evmctl v2.1.0 — modular plugin system v2.0.0 introduces the modular plugin system; v2.1.0 follows a day later with SSE forwarding and deployment examples.
- exhibition-vm-controller goes open source MIT-licensed, on github.com/zkmkarlsruhe; v1.3.0 with a web UI follows within the week.
- The exhibition closes; the numbers 6.5 months of unattended operation: one XP VM lineage carried 8 works, the kiosk framework 9 more, 5 external-API breaks fixed mid-run.
- Choose Your Filter! opens at ZKM 31 works of browser art (1996–2025), most running again for the first time in years. The exhibition that started all of this.