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Series XV: Archived Website

Extent

1 websites in 1 archived website.

Scope and Contents

This series contains the Exit Art website captured after it closed on May 31, 2012 and contains information about their exhibitions and programs dating back to 1982. Exit Art conceived and ran a different multimedia projects including SEA (Social-Environmental Aesthetics), which addressed social and environmental concerts; Digimovies screening room for digitally-produced video works of any genre; and Trickster Theater performances. The website also has press about programming, images from their shows, history of the organization, their ConceptPlus curatorial model, and benefit and auction catalogues.

Accruals

Site crawls have been discontinued as of July 2014 and no further accruals will occur.

Appraisal

Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored with the permission of the content owner.

Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of http://www.exitart.org/ in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.

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