AI in Museums: Reflections, Perspectives and Applications

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2023

AI in Museums

Reflections, Perspectives and Applications

Edited by: Sonja Thiel and Johannes C. Bernhardt
Funded by: Beauftragte der Bundesreg. für Kultur und Medien

Volume 74 in the series Edition Museum

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839467107

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About this book

Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly important topic in the cultural sector. While museums have long focused on building digital object databases, the existing data can now become a field of application for machine learning, deep learning and foundation model approaches. This goes hand in hand with new artistic practices, curation tools, visitor analytics, chatbots, automatic translations and tailor-made text generation. With a decidedly interdisciplinary approach, the volume brings together a wide range of critical reflections, practical perspectives and concrete applications of artificial intelligence in museums, and provides an overview of the current state of the debate.

Author / Editor information

Sonja Thiel works as digital catalyst for Artificial Intelligence at Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe. She has a background in history and philosophy and has worked as a curator for participatory processes at cultural history museums. 2014-2020 she developed a blended-learning academy program in Museum Studies at the University of Freiburg. Her work focuses on the intersections between museology, participatory curatorial practice and open digital education.
Johannes C. Bernhardt is a cultural historian specializing in cultural management and digital transformation. After ten years at the universities of Freiburg, Mannheim and Bochum, he worked at the Badisches Landesmuseum from 2017 to 2023 on digitization concepts for historical collections, the intersection of digitality and participation, and the development of the digital museum - for all these fields, Artificial Intelligence opens new perspectives.

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https://kulturimweb.net, 31.01.2024

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Foreword Johannes C. Bernhardt and Sonja Thiel Open Access Download PDF	9
Introduction Johannes C. Bernhardt and Sonja Thiel Open Access Download PDF	11
Part 1: Reflections
The Role of Culture in the Intelligence of AI Mercedes Bunz Open Access Download PDF	23
Why AI Cannot Think A Theoretical Approach Daniel M. Feige Open Access Download PDF	31
AI and Art Arguments for Practice Arno Schubbach Open Access Download PDF	41
The Hidden Costs of AI Decolonization from Practice back to Theory Oumaima Hajri Open Access Download PDF	57
Dead End or Way Out? Generating Critical Information about Painting Collections with AI Lukas Fuchsgruber Open Access Download PDF	65
Power, Data and Control AI in the Museum Oonagh Murphy Open Access Download PDF	73
Managing AI Developing Strategic and Ethical Guidelines for Museums Sonja Thiel Open Access Download PDF	83
Museum-AI Assemblages A Conceptual Framework for Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Christoph Bareither Open Access Download PDF	99
Part 2: Perspectives
AI with Museums and Cultural Heritage Baptiste Caramiaux Open Access Download PDF	117
Troubleshoot? A Global Mapping of AI in Museums Isabel Hufschmidt Open Access Download PDF	131
Digital Curation and AI Opportunities and Risks for Cultural Heritage Institutions Clemens Neudecker Open Access Download PDF	149
Teaching Provenance to AI An Annotation Scheme for Museum Data Fabio Mariani, Lynn Rother and Max Koss Open Access Download PDF	163
The Funding Program LINK—AI and Culture Five Lessons Learned after Five Years Tabea Golgath Open Access Download PDF	173
Discovering Culture with AI Luba Elliott Open Access Download PDF	181
Post-Truth Archives, GPT-2 and Fake News Marion Carré Open Access Download PDF	187
Impostor Syndrome GPT-3 between Fact and Fiction Roland Fischer Open Access Download PDF	199
Part 3: Applications
Algorithmic Exhibition-Making Curating with Networks and Word Embeddings Tillmann Ohm Open Access Download PDF	209
Evaluating the Blackbox Linking Viennese Art through AI Nicole High-Steskal and Rainer Simon Open Access Download PDF	217
Clouds of Symbols The Digital Curator Project Lukáš Pilka Open Access Download PDF	225
xCurator AI-Supported Exploration and Curation of Digital Collections Sonja Thiel and Etienne Posthumus Open Access Download PDF	233
Say the Image, Don’t Make It Empowering Human-AI Co-Creation through the Interactive Installation Wishing Well Yannick Hofmann and Cecilia Preiß Open Access Download PDF	245
CHIM—Chatbot in the Museum Exploring and Explaining Museum Objects with Speech-Based AI Oliver Gustke, Stefan Schaffer and Aaron Ruß Open Access Download PDF	257
With AI to Art! Chatting with Helen of Troy and Co. through IBM Watson Melanie Fahden and Anja Gebauer Open Access Download PDF	265
Exploring Beyond the Exhibits Creating Knowledge for Social Robots in Public Spaces Ana Müller, Michael Schiffmann, Anke Neumeister and Anja Richert Open Access Download PDF	273
Tracking the Visitor An Optical Indoor System for Visitor Research in Museums Franz Koeferl, Matthias Zuerl, Jitin Jami, Jindong Li, Dario Zanca and Bjoern Eskofier Open Access Download PDF	287
Symotiv Virtual Insights into the Symphony Orchestra Michael Zöllner, Markus Bosl, Dirk Widmann and Moritz Krause Open Access Download PDF	295
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	303
Abstracts Open Access Download PDF	311

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Keywords: Culture; Digitality; Artificial Intelligence; Digitalization; Science; Museology; Digital Media; Technology

eBook

Published: December 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839467107