Save The Date! 2025 Curationist Metadata Summit: Metadata Outside the Box
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Thursday, September 18th 2025 from 12-1:30pm EST.
Mark your calendars for the 2025 Curationist Metadata Learning & Unlearning Summit, happening online on Thursday, September 18th 2025 from 12-1:30pm EST. This year’s theme, “Metadata Outside the Box”, invites you to explore subversive, unconventional, and unexpected approaches to metadata creation and use.
Join us for short presentations, a lively panel discussion, and an interactive audience Q&A with leaders who are reimagining how metadata can reflect and honor the communities it serves.
Our Panelists
Hailey Loman is the Co-Founder and Director of Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), an artist-run archive and non-circulating library in which contemporary creative processes are recorded and preserved.
Lydia Mardirian is a researcher at the Arab Image Foundation, an independent association that collects, preserves and researches photographs from South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) and its diasporas. AIF is based in Beirut, Lebanon.
Kyle Parry is Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz and the author of A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes, and the essay, "Metadata Is Not Data About Data."
Have a question for our panelists?
Email us in advance at curationist@curationist.org. Reserve your spot today and be part of the conversation! Register Here