Archives of the Future

Archives are not just a haphazard repository of records and objects that serve to preserve institutional memory. They can only be effective in that they submit themselves to an organizational system, ostensibly to facilitate access to information but really to underscore a way of understanding, of seeing the world. This second stream of media works resists easy categorization. It is only when they become part of CFAT’s past, when they are archived, that new patterns will emerge, giving us insight into our present.