Organizing the Un-organizable: How Digital Tech Reshapes Artistic Legacy

Join Francine Snyder (Director of Archives at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and editor of I Don’t Think About Being Great: Selected Writings by Robert Rauschenberg) and Noah Landow (Founder and CEO at Macktez) for an informal conversation between an expert in art and artist archives and the founder of a technology consulting firm. Even in the art world, traditional cataloging practices born from the physical limitations of 3x5 index cards, paper files, and of shelf space constrained how we record, search for, and document the many records and ephemera that surround an artist’s life and their artistic practice. Modern technologies offer "limitless" digital canvases, but create new hurdles for searchability and semantic meaning. What lessons can be learned from the past, and how can we take advantage of opportunities offered by a new era of widespread digitization, preserving our cultural history and granting broader access to it, while exploring the tension between conventions of record-keeping and the radical, non-linear philosophy of the artists themselves? Whether navigating…