DAC Summer School 2025

DAY 1

Wednesday, 2^nd July 2025 (SE W.1.05)

10.30-11.00

Welcome address, introduction, organizational announcements

11.00-12.30

Keynote 1

Classification, Hallucination, Fabulation: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Politics of AI
Christoph Hubatschke (IT:U Linz)

12.30-13.30

Lunch Break

13.30-15.00

Paper Session I

AI for (digital) museums – an application-oriented overview
Florian Windhager, Eva Mayr (UWK), Matthias Schlögl (ÖAW)

Beyond the Hype: NFTs as Tools for Securing Tangible and Intangible Assets
Alexander Pfeiffer (UWK)

15.30-17.00

Paper Session II (Hybrid)

Art Bingo – A gamification project with object classification AI aimed to aid the loss of interest of visitors for artworks
Alex Formigaro (University of Venice Ca‘ Foscari)/Florent Moulon (Polytech Lyon)

Art Authentication through Provenance Research, Art Forensics and AI
Sandra Samolik (University of Leicester)

17.00-17.30

Wrap Up Day 1

18.30-22.00

Dinner Heuriger Stein

DAY 2

Thursday, 3^rd July 2025

09.00-09.15

Welcome, organizational announcements

09.15-10.30

Keynote 2

AI will… know? Navigating historical legacies and changing practices in a fragile world
Chiara Zuanni (Uni Graz)

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break

11.00-12.30

Paper Session III

Seminar Machine: Habitat and the Dutch Architectural Archive
Eytan Mann (TU Delft)

Central Bank Museums – Institutional Memory and the Musealisation of Money
Aura Oancea (EPG, Romania)

12.30-13.30

Lunch Break

13.30-15.30

Workshop Session I

Collect. Code. Connect – The Innovative Museum Collection as a Knowledge Repository in the Digital Age
Team Art Education & Knowledge Management, mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna

15.30-16.00

Coffee Break

16.00-16.45

Paper Session IV

The perils and (potential) rewards of AI in digital catalogue raisonné development and use
Kiersten Thamm (Navigating.art)

16.45-17.30

Wrap up Day 2

18.30-22.00

Dinner Salzstadl

DAY 3

Friday, July 4^th 2025

09.00-09.15

Welcome, organizational announcements

09.15-10.45

Paper Session V

Beyond ‚Check-box‘ AI Ethics – Contextualising Responsible AI for Cultural and Creative Sectors
Masafumi Nishi/Wenzel Mehnert/Renata Mandzhieva (AIT)

SUPERAGENCY – Archive Performativity and Resistance in the Age of Generative Standardization
Leonardo Ruvolo (Accademia delle Belle Arti di Napoli/Landescape.eu)

10.45-11.15

Coffee Break

11.15-12.30

Panel Discussion

Human-Machine-Interaction Perspectives on AI in the Museum Archive Context: Kiersten Thamm, Alex Formigaro, Leonardo Ruvolo, Chiara Zuanni
Moderated by Simone Kriglstein (Masaryk University, Brno/AIT)

12.30-13.30

Lunch Break

13.30-15.00

Workshop Session II

Shaping Digital Spaces of Opportunities – Entrepreneurship in the Balancing Act between Digital Platforms, Data, and Local Practice
Isabell Grundschober (UWK), Klaus Neundlinger (in scope), Larissa Neuburger (FH WKW)

15.00-15.30

Coffee Break

15.30-16.00

Wrap-up Day 3 & Summer School