The Contribution of Digital Technologies to the Mediation of the Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage

Abstract

This brief article presents some of the questions inherent to the thesis I am currently engaged in with the French Paris 8 University, in the field of Communication sciences. Entitled Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage in regard to digital humanities, that thesis aims at interrogating the impact of digital technologies on the managing, the conservation as well as the understanding and the appropriation of cultural heritage in terms of materiality. In other words, the goal is to question the importance of these technologies in the creation of new frameworks of memories, as well as in the establishing of a mediation of cultural heritage that would be the point of origin of the building and the vision of a singular history of art. To that end, this article proposes to analyze three digital devices from three different perspectives of the conservation-restoration of cultural heritage: research, restoration and diffusion.