October 4 to October 7, 2018 conference at Vanderbilt University. The conference is free and open to the public.
The overarching goal of this conference is to lay the foundation for a new theory of collecting in the light of both the most recent and anticipated technological innovations. It aims to facilitate dialogues between scholars from different academic fields, artists, archivists, curators, and IT experts; to reassess our traditional understanding of cultural memory in light of technological advances; to examine how the private and public spheres of collection are merging or diverging, and identify how both collecting institutions and individual collectors are reaching out to their virtual and actual visitors and followers; and to determine the common interests that academia, institutions, and businesses as well as private collectors share in a market of collecting. More information here.