Reviving the Archive

In September 2019 the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, New York and Paris, held a conference on the current state of digitalization of art-historical archives in Europe. "Reviving the Archive: Material Records in the Digital Age" was organized in cooperation with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), The Hague, and the Museum Barberini. The conference brought art historians, scholars, archivists, and curators together to discuss the necessity of improved access to archiveal material and the possibilities offered by it. 
 
The speakers were Vivian Endicott Barnett (New York), Christina Bartosh (University of Vienna), Christian Bartz (Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam), Jane Bramwell (Tate, London), Sophie Derrot (INHA, Paris), Walter Feilchenfeldt (Zurich), Elizabeth Gorayeb (The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, New York), Dr. Günter Herzog (ZADIK, Cologne), Dr. Meike Hoffmann (Mosse Art Research Initiative, Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Ralf Krestel (Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam), Martin Lorenz (Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Berlin), Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel (Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam), Dr. Victoria Noel-Johnson (Rome), France Nerlich (INHA, Paris), Dr. Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck (University of Cologne), Agnes Peresztegi (Looted Art Litigation, New York, Paris), Prof. Dr. Chris Stolwijk (RKD, The Hague), and Dr. Ortrud Westheider (Museum Barberini, Potsdam).  
 
A summary of the results and all lectures of the conference can be viewed here.