Signs, after all, would only be discovered if someone thought to keep them and either deposit them in museums as historical artifacts (not a practice common for ephemeral artifacts of everyday life until the late 20th century) or passed them down as property (again, hardly to be expected).
As Fluxus works most often took the form of events or happenings that viewers experienced by chance, the movement is typically represented by ephemeral artifacts such as fliers, photographs and film documentation.
The #berghainfilter signals a new age of Berghain mythology, where the club has become so hype that even its most ephemeral artifacts, like photos of colors, are fetishized.
Sound--because it's experiential--is an ephemeral artifact of spaces and objects that we can use to better understand past life.
Ray B. Browne, founder of The Journal of Popular Culture and the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University, said that fads were an ephemeral artifact of a culture that's always on the lookout for the next thing.
Furtively mimeographed at lunch breaks — often with runs of fewer than 100 — and often distributed by hand at punk rock shows or in Riot Grrrl meetings, these artifacts were as ephemeral as they were incendiary.
It is generally an event rather than an artifact, by nature ephemeral, though it is often recorded on video and by means of still photography.
The Shorter OED defines "ephemera" as an item "of short-lived interest or use … collectible items originally expected to have only short-term usefulness or popularity". A fragile artifact can be defined as ephemeral, but similarly, if its content is slight, its format or genre perceived as trivial, or it reflects contemporary events of passing interest, it can be considered ephemeral.
The exhibition displays these projects as "reports on 'art outside art'" with text, photographs, films, artifacts, and other forms of documentation, along with ephemeral elements such as dialogues, artist talks, and workshops that add to the gradual unfolding of the exhibition.
The posters, originally produced as ephemeral objects in support of a main event, are now highlighted as primary artifacts.
For teens, trends change fast, and Snapchat's ephemeral nature means your personal brand is always a reflection of the now rather than the visual artifacts from when you aligned with a fad since passed.
