Castillo, Ballesteros, Neri, Schaerf, Weddigen | Das Kunstmuseum im digitalen Zeitalter – 2024 скачать в хорошем качестве

Castillo, Ballesteros, Neri, Schaerf, Weddigen | Das Kunstmuseum im digitalen Zeitalter – 2024

Darío Negueruela del Castillo, Pepe Ballesteros, Iacopo Neri, Ludovica Schaerf, Tristan Weddigen (Max Planck Society – University of Zurich) - Uncharted Territories: Redefining Art Museums’ Reach through Multimodal AI Museological paradigms are under a radical reevaluation with respect to the digital. With the infusion of transformative AI technologies, museums’ curatorial methodologies are shifting to a dynamically interactive and multimodal domain. This is not merely a shift from the physical to the digital, but a daring leap from digital collection management to an intricate AI-driven curatorial pipeline. It challenges rooted premises, urging us to venture into uncharted territories for curatorial practices. By employing multimodal deep learning models advancing with more recent and encompassing modalities, a symbiotic dialogue between visual, textual, audio, and spatial data can be fostered. Not only does this crossmodal synergy potentially augment — or numb — aesthetic experiences mirroring today’s evolving visual culture; it can and should propel a nuanced and enhanced understanding of both contemporary AI models and art museum collections and mission. We articulate this reflection through an exemplary project presented at the Helsinki Art Biennial that leverages CLIP embeddings and generative AI to situate museum pieces within synthetic panoramas of imagined Helsinki landscapes, orchestrating a narrative that transcends geographical, temporal, and cultural confines. This conceptual audacity extends the curatorial sphere beyond mere physical or digital collections into a realm of computational creativity and inclusivity, facilitating a confluence of diverse, even nonhuman, perspectives. Engaging with AI not as a mere tool, but as a collaborative entity, this project helps us responsibly address the complexities and ethical dimensions that come with AI, boldly envisioning museums as fluid, expansive realms of knowledge exchange, ready to engage with the new avenues of AI and beyond. Darío Negueruela del Castillo works on architecture and architectural and urban history, digital humanities, and urban studies. He has served as the scientific coordinator of the Center for Digital Visual Studies (Max Planck Society—University of Zurich) since January 2020. Before this, he was head of research at ALICE lab EPFL. Digital Visual Studies is a five-year cooperation project funded by the Max Planck Society and hosted by the University of Zurich since January 2020. The project’s aim is to establish digital visual studies as a way to expand art history toward the digital humanities, to modernize its methodologies, and to contribute to forming the first generation of digital visual humanists. The project, headed by an executive committee, includes six predoctoral fellows and several postdoctoral fellows and visiting fellows, who will work in the areas of visual, textual, and spatiotemporal research. Moreover, the project cofunds a six-year assistant professor for digital visual studies. https://www.belvedere.at/digitalmuseu... #digitalmuseum #belvederemuseum