What is your education and/or training?

Dr. Tom Ensom is a freelance digital conservator. He works with those caring for complex digital media, particularly software-based art, to research, develop and implement strategies for its long-term preservation. In 2018 he completed his PhD, which developed strategies for the documentation of software-based art through a collaborative doctoral partnership between King’s College London and Tate. He continues to work closely with Tate’s Time-based Media Conservation team, where he has helped develop their conservation strategy for software-based art and supports the long-term care of a wide range of time-based media artworks.