Identifying properties of the art work; in determining the identity of a work, conservators are interested in the relationship of the components of a dynamics system, i.e. the installed state of a time-based media installation to the meaning of the installation. Some of the components may have a significance broader than purely functional value. (p)
Laurenson, 2004, p. 49
Those characteristics or conditions of a thing, person, or group that remain the same amid change or that distinguish a thing, person, or group from another.
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