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The Erik Brunetti Foundation for the Arts conducts independent research into the systems through which cultural history is documented, attributed, preserved, and made available for future study.

The program focuses on cultural record governance: the institutional, archival, editorial, and technological decisions that determine what enters the historical record, how authorship is assigned, which evidence remains accessible, and how cultural meaning changes over time. Research draws upon primary-source materials maintained by the Foundation together with published literature, institutional records, contemporaneous media, legal documents, testimony, and comparative archival sources. Brunetti’s practice and the Foundation’s collections provide recurring fields of study, while the research program addresses broader questions relevant to museums, archives, artist foundations, scholars, publishers, and custodial institutions.

Areas of Research

The program currently encompasses:

  • Archival integrity and evidentiary continuity

  • Authorship, attribution, and provenance

  • Cultural record governance

  • Institutional omission and historical visibility

  • Documentation standards and persistent records

  • Informal cultural systems and pre-institutional value formation

  • Regional publishing and cultural mythology

  • Market influence and institutional memory

  • Symbolic circulation and appropriation

  • Public access and long-term preservation

Research Outputs

The Foundation publishes:

  • Research articles

  • Policy white papers

  • Working papers

  • Case studies

  • Comparative analyses

  • Documentary and audiovisual records

  • Research frameworks

  • Source-based institutional reports

Each output is identified by type and responsible authorship. Where appropriate, publications are assigned persistent identifiers and preserved through the Foundation’s Zenodo community. Selected papers are also indexed through SSRN.

Unless specifically identified otherwise, Foundation publications constitute independently issued research and have not undergone external academic peer review.

Research Direction

Emmelie Robert-Brunetti oversees the Foundation’s research agenda. Her work focuses on cultural record governance, archival integrity, attribution systems, documentation standards, symbolic circulation, and the institutional formation of contemporary visual history.

ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1001-7573

Research inquiries:
research@erikbrunettifoundation.org