International online conference, January 15th to 19th, 2024
Vienna (OTS) – The Belvedere’s successful conference series on the digital transformation of art museums is entering its sixth round. In 2024, a particular focus will be on the responsible use of artificial intelligence in the museum sector.
Stella Rollig, Director General des Belvedere: For six years now, we have been facilitating an international, highly competent exchange on the topic of digitalization among experts with this conference. Beyond content-related discourse, the annual event aims to strengthen art and cultural institutions as hubs of knowledge exchange for the future.
Digitalization has already fundamentally changed the way we experience art and culture, and artificial intelligence is well on its way to revolutionizing the museum industry to an even greater extent. From the automated transcription of handwritten sources in the archive to the search for images in the collection that are similar in content and form or the reconstruction of lost works of art to the personalization of museum visits, AI offers a variety of new ways to facilitate research work, reach visitors and to impart knowledge. How will these developments affect the social role of museums in the coming years?
Building on the contributions of the 2023 conference, which attracted more than a thousand participants from 56 countries and five continents, the sixth conference is dedicated to The art museum in the digital age the topic of Metaverse, Web 3 and AI. Four online thematic blocks, a workshop in Belvedere 21 and a hybrid panel discussion critically examine machine learning versus human curation, digital networking and aggregated analysis of cultural heritage data as well as immersive experiences in the area of tension between virtuality and reality.
It starts with a panel on the topic on January 15th Challenges, which is about museum experiences with artificial intelligence. At 7 p.m. Lev Manovich (The Graduate Center, City University of New York) will give a keynote lecture on the topic AI in the Museum. Manovich is one of the world’s leading theorists of the digital and a pioneer in the application of data science to analyze contemporary culture. Further panels outline the topics of meta-spaces (on January 16th), networks (on January 17th) and curating (on January 18th).
Under the motto “think global, act local”, events will also be offered on site at Belvedere 21 on Friday (January 19th). Experts from the Institute for Digital Culture, University of Leicester, offer registered participants the opportunity to identify development needs and research opportunities in the areas of Creative and Culture Technologies, Digital Skills and Leadership, Inclusive Digital Design and Cultural Informatics in a workshop. In the final panel discussion, Christian Huemer, head of the Belvedere Research Center, speaks in the Blickle Cinema with Kimmo Levä (Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki), Nina Röhrs (Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich), Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica, Linz) and Sophia Widmann ( MUSEUM BOOSTER, Vienna).
Christian Huemer, head of the Belvedere Research Center: We invite everyone interested to explore the potential of digital technologies in the museum sector. We address the pressing question of how technological progress can be proactively designed to ensure responsible applications while addressing the associated ethical and social challenges.
Conference committee: Christian Huemer, Alexandra Sommer, Markus Wiesenhofer (Belvedere, Vienna)
Anna Frasca-Rath (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg), Lev Manovich (Graduate Center, City University of New York), Vince Dziekan (Monash University, Melbourne)
Conference languages: German and English
Participation in the conference is free.
Registration required for on-site events.
Further information and the program can be found on the Conference website
www.belvedere.at/das-kunstmuseum-im-digitalen-zeitalter-2024
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Questions & Contact:
Irene Jaeger
Belvedere Public Relations
+43 664 800 141 185
presse@belvedere.at
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