KARLSRUHE.- How can digital data be stored over the long term if the new notebook is already obsolete as soon as it leaves the store? This phenomenon also presents problems in art: What happens to media art when the Internet environment for which it was conceived, changes? Is it admissible to show works that were once developed for the PC now on an iPad? The exhibition “Digital Art Works. The Challenges of Conservation” at the ZKM | Media Museum fundamentally explores questions related to collecting, exhibiting, and maintaining computer-based art works and makes the work concerning digital conservation visible. For a few decades now, digitalization has enabled and simplified the processing and distribution of data; digital data are available on the Internet for all users at all times. Basically, however, the conservation of digital content has been subject to an increasingly rapid adaptation to new technical systems. Thi