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Media art being so frequently labeled as' the art of tomorrow', it has been seldom considered that the artworks we see today in exhibitions at festivals and galleries will one day be the art of the past. Moreover, as media art is always looking at recent and future developments, the past does not seem to matter-except in the case of pioneers like Nam June Paik or ancestors like Martel Duchamp, who are evoked in order to place media art in the mainstream of the history of art. Works from a few years ago may seem passé to many, in the same way that an old game console, cell phone or operating system becomes obsolete. Stewart Brand has pointed out that new media art is caught up in a process of constant novelty and accelerated obsolescence which endangers, not only the artist's career but also the art itself:" How does a culture get any aesthetics, grounding or continuity from art forms with the longevity of mayflies …