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)

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)

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, 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
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 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 (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