Michael Gossett
Michael Gossett is a New York-based poet, researcher, and grantmaker whose practice involves future memory work and the creation and preservation of the cultural record for the public good.
At NEW INC, he is researching and developing The Artist Archive Incubator, an effort to support contemporary artists and writers in the incubation and future placement of their archives using best practices in born-digital preservation and emerging principles of shared data governance. The Artist Archive Incubator seeks to cultivate a new model and market for art and literary archives that: anticipates the GLAM sector's increasing and future need for born-digital collections; takes the elusive, transient, and mutable nature of born-digital material seriously; and creates new legal and organizational forms, like data trusts, that allow artists and writers to retain control over how their archives are built, described, acquired, accessed, used, and monetized.