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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.
About the author
Johannes C. Bernhardt ist Kulturhistoriker und lehrt an der Universität Konstanz. Nach Stationen an den Universitäten Freiburg, Mannheim und Bochum arbeitete er von 2017 bis 2023 am Badischen Landesmuseum an der Schnittstelle von Digitalität und Partizipation, der Entwicklung des Digitalen Museums und Anwendungen Künstlicher Intelligenz. Schwerpunkte seiner Arbeit sind die Alte Geschichte, Kulturmanagement und digitale Transformation.
Summary
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.
Report
»An exciting work for all those who the interfaces between technology and and culture. Because it is a publication not only the current debate about the use of AI in the cultural sector sector, but also provides impetus for future developments.«
Sigrun Lehnert, MEDIENwissenschaft, 3 (2024), translated from German 20240826
