Ben Fino-Radin (b. 1984, USA) is a NYC based media archaeologist, archivist, and conservator of born-digital and computer based works of contemporary art. Research interests include: digital preservation, digital cultural heritage, web based creative communities, computer history, information architecture, metadata, and animated gifs.


Digital Conservator @ Rhizome at the New Museum
Manager of the Digital Repository for Museum Collections @ MoMA

Master of Library and Information Science, Pratt Institute, 2013
Master of Fine Arts, Digital Arts, Pratt Institute, 2013
Bachelor of Fine Arts, New Media, Alfred University, 2007


Selected Writing:

• Take a Picture, It'll Last Longer
• Conservation in Collections of Digital Works of Art*
• Digital Preservation Practices and the Rhizome ArtBase
• When Machines Speak
• The Web Browser As Aesthetic Framework

* = forthcoming in next volume of Electronic Media Review


Press:

• Art F City interview
• Library of Congress interview
• Hyperallergic: "Conserving the Digital"
• Boston Globe: "How digital art decays—and how to save it"
• The Verge: "Archivists revive the bulletin board that rallied NYC's art scene in the 1990s"