Tom Ensom

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. (2025)

Links

• Website
• Technical Narratives: Analysis, Description and Representation in the Conservation of Software-based Art, London: King’s College London, 2019, 294 pp, PDF. PhD thesis.