Built to Last, Designed to Vanish

The companion podcast to Issue No.86 of The Intersect. Chelsea and Georgia sit with an uncomfortable question: when did the work we make digitally become more fragile than a photographer's glass plate, and what would it actually take to design something meant to outlive us? A conversation about permanence as a deliberate act, not a promise the cloud quietly keeps.Contents00:07 Permanent by Design00:51 Cage's 639-Year Piece05:39 Saving Artists’ Websites07:37 Building Your Own Archive09:59 Copy That FloppyIn this episodeCage's 639-Year Piece An organ in a small German church just changed chords for the first time in over two years, and nobody in the room will live to hear the piece end. Chelsea and Georgia get into the strangest part: the inheritable tickets to a finale six centuries away.Saving Artists' Websites An artist's site is no longer a business card. It's the whole record of a life's work, and it can blink out overnight. There's a quiet rescue effort underway, and it isn't only chasing the famous names.Building Your Own Archive For the rest of us who will never be famous enough for anyone else to build the lifeboat. One question from the piece lingers: which drive in the drawer would you grieve if it never spun up again?Copy That Floppy Three decades after a campaign told kids not to duplicate discs, a university is now begging people to do exactly that. The delicious irony carries the sting of the whole issue.Stay in the loopIf these are the conversations you want in your week, follow along and help keep The Intersect going.Website: theintersect.artInstagram: @theintersectnewsThreads: @jberkesselBlueSky: @polymash.bsky.socialSubstack: The Intersect on SubstackLinkedIn: Juergen Berkessel