Should We Strive to Ensure that Works of Ephemeral Heritage Last? Or Should We Move on… Without Looking Back?

With this contribution, I wish to offer a practical and concrete illustration of the topic of ephemeral heritage —a practical illustration of the problems that digital artists face in terms of the permanent obsolescence of the products that they create. I will endeavor to do so following preliminary remarks intended to briefly recall the nature of these problems, which arise from a number of sources: the changing speed of computer calculation, changing software, changing tools for creation as...