AI as an Archival Tool
Sandra Alvaro, Dominik Bönisch, María Cuevas, Bonnie Mitchell, Andreas Schiffler, Jill Scott,
Janice Searleman
Globally Connecting New Media Art Archives
The New Media Art Archives Network is presenting the first Workshop on New Media Art Archiving (WNMAA) to be held from February 5th to 8th, 2025, at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Dates and Location of the WNMAA
Date: February 5–8, 2025
Location: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Supplementary Workshop: AI as an archival tool
The ‘Intelligent Age’ proclamated by Klauss Schwap (WEF) considers AI a multipurpose technology comparable to electricity. A set of technologies fueling a societal revolution which can elevate humanity or fracture it. Framed with Hype and speculation, AI is a technological proposal but also a cultural phenomenon ignited in science fiction at the same time, considered able to boost the growth of giant communication corporations while menacing to kill us all. Beyond all this verbose, generative AI based on deep learning has proved to be a powerful resource in various fields, empowering industry and agriculture, making cities smarter and more sustainable, accelerating diagnosis and drug testing, and even allowing personalised treatments. It is also an opportunity to foster preservation and access to culture, especially when dealing with cultural objects digitally native or vastly documented in digital formats.
Despite Media Art participation in the development and spread of the ‘intelligent age’, Media Art research and acknowledgement are still marginal in universities, museums and archives, being largely under-resourced in core cultural institutions (Liverpool Declaration). The goal of this workshop is to discuss the capabilities of now available intelligent technologies and tools to facilitate New Media Art preservation, access and visibility, empower networked collaboration and data sharing and knowledge transfer between artists, institutions and researchers internationally, increase Media Art visibility on the web and provide resources and inspiration for curators, researchers and educators helping to disseminate and preserve the heritage of Media Art.
Date: Saturday 9:30- 11:00 h.
Sandra Alvaro table: Pipeline– AI and the Archive as Actionable Data (How can researchers and archivists use AI?)