One of the main preservation problems encountered in the field of media art installation today is the dependency of each individual work on technology to function the way it was intended by the artist. This technology is by necessity determined by what is available at the moment of creation. To prolong the life span of a media art installation, once it enters the museum world, there are basically two possible strategies. The first is to preserve not only the artwork but also its apparatus, meaning all the original equipment and the technology necessary to produce and maintain this equipment. As this will prove almost impossible to sustain in the long run, the second strategy, adapting the artwork to the state of the technology, is the one usually chosen by people or institutions involved in the preservation of media art.