The Brave New Future of the Recent Past
Screen-based media is today’s dominant cultural form, yet the technologies used to create and deliver culture are racing ahead of those that preserve it, and collecting institutions' expertise is focused on physical artefacts.
Concurrently, digitisation and preservation of Indigenous culture, knowledges and metadata is vital to ensuring that Indigenous stories are stored and told authentically and appropriately.
Join library, broadcasting, museum and archiving professionals as they forecast challenges and solutions for collecting and preserving contemporary culture now, for the future.
Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.
Tasha James
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Hilary Knight
AEA Consulting
Brent Reidy
The New York Public Library
Keir Winesmith
National Film and Sound Archive