Infinite Archive
A structured, searchable archive system for creative practices.
Most artist websites are promotional tools. Infinite Archive is structural. It is a relational, searchable system designed to hold the full body of a practice across decades. Works, exhibitions, press, publications, collaborators, collections. Cross-linked and governed for long-term clarity. This is not a simple portfolio site.
It is a living library.
Optional support for consolidation, metadata structuring, file normalization, documentation guidance, and ongoing upload management.
Structured review cycles every 1–3 years to ensure coherence, clarity, and structural evolution over time.
A legacy layer that integrates lineage, mentorship, studio history, and community memory. Designed for long-term cultural continuity.
A small, curated group of artists and studio leaders engaging in archival literacy, relational design thinking, and governance strategy.
Creative work accumulates complexity. Images across drives.Exhibitions across institutions. Press across countries. Assistants, studio managers, evolving file systems. Without structure, legacy fragments. Infinite Archive transforms accumulation into coherence.
If your practice has depth, Infinite Archive provides the structure to hold it. Mid-career artists entering institutional visibility. Studios with 10+ years of accumulated work. Creative practices preparing for long-term legacy. Practitioners whose archive exceeds their website.
Each Infinite Archive is custom-designed infrastructure:
• Archive architecture built around your practice
• Relational CMS with stable IDs and cross-linking
• Search-first interface
• Timeline and thematic navigation
• Structured backend
• designed for studio teams and future transitions
• Portable, exportable data
Each Infinite Archive is custom-designed infrastructure. This is not a template. It is designed editorial architecture.
• Archive architecture built around your practice
• Relational CMS with stable IDs and cross-linking
• Search-first interface
• Timeline and thematic navigation
• Structured backend
• designed for studio teams and future transitions
• Portable, exportable data
We have begun the first phase of Infinite Archive sites for a small group of artists and curators. The initial launches include Christine Y. Kim, timed with her Frieze Los Angeles Viewing Room presentation, and the relaunch of Michelle Lopez Studio ahead of her inclusion in the 2026 Whitney Biennial.
If you have not yet visited Anicka Yi Studio’s website, we also developed a visual browser that allows viewers to navigate the work in a more exploratory way, moving beyond the limitations of a conventional artwork list.The deeper motivation for Infinite Archive became clear to me when our dear friend and colleague Peter Simensky passed away. In the immediate aftermath, we quickly assembled a website where friends and collaborators could upload tributes and memories. While meaningful, it also revealed how fragile an artist’s digital legacy can be. A tribute page is not the same as a true archive.
Peter’s work deserves a proper digital home. That means high-resolution documentation, organized records of exhibitions and projects, and a structure capable of preserving his practice for the future. Because there is currently no estate managing this material, I feel a responsibility, alongside others in our community, to begin building the digital infrastructure that could hold it.