Termin

02.07.2025 - 04.07.2025

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SE W.1.05

University for Continuing Education

Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30

3500 Krems

AUSTRIA

Kosten free admission

Collecting plays a prominent role as a practice of selecting, recording and structuring material and immaterial objects not only in the realm of museums and archives, but also in organizations. In the context of digital transformation and the rising use of generative AI, (“big”) data collection has become one of the most important competitive factors, seemingly paving the way for a further dematerialisation of both the economy and culture. Arguably, such an idea of the futures of collecting does not stand up to closer scrutiny. Furthermore, the excessive use of energy-intensive forms of computing, such as generative AI, is in stark contrast to the goal of sustainability and ecological transition. In this sense, the digital transformation raises numerous questions of how we will deal with our tangible and intangible heritage now and in the future:

  • How do societies and organisations relate to their own histories (including identity and change) and to their accumulated repertoires of concepts and actions through collecting processes, in the context of an increasing entanglement of analogue and digital objects and collections?
  • How do interactive forms of designing and presenting archives, collections and knowledge, e.g. through generative AI or Extended Reality (XR), reshape our approach to history, identity and the practices of collecting?
  • Which objects and data will we (still) store in the future, and with which resources and technologies? And which data and processes is endangered to become ineffective, meaningless or even pointless in a changing environment?

The question of cultural 'big' data and knowledge production becomes particularly pressing in light of recent developments in the field of AI. Human forms of knowledge production are increasingly intertwined with machine learning—a development that risks transforming collecting from a socio-technical practice into a purely technological problem. This needs to be critically examined from a cultural, curatorial and organisational studies perspective.

Program

DAY 1

Wednesday, 2nd 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)

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

15.00-15.30 Coffee Break

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)

AI Will Sort It Out—But Only If We Get the Data Right
Sandra Samolik (University of Leicester)

17.00-17.30

Wrap Up Day 1

18.30-22.00

Dinner Heuriger Stein

DAY 2

Thursday, 3rd July 2025

09.00-09.15

Welcome, organizational announcements

09.15-10.30

Keynote 2

AI will… knowNavigating 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
Claudia Freiberger & Benedikt Hochwartner (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 4th 2025

09.00-09.15

Welcome, organizational announcements

09.15-10.45

Paper Session V

BeyondCheck-box‘ AI EthicsContextualising Responsible AI for Cultural and Creative Sectors
Masafumi Nishi (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 (FHW der WKW)

15.00-15.30

Coffee Break

15.30-16.00

Wrap-up Day 3 & Summer School

 

Organizers

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