- Led by Professor Lydia Farina, University of Nottingham
This demonstrator (full title: Creating immersive art experiences through AI: Responsible use of AI in the creation, archiving, reactivation and conservation of artworks and their archives) generates key new knowledge on responsible innovation and creativity when AI is used to create, document, reactivate and conserve artworks and their archives.
Reactivating artworks in the context of this project will involve performing or exhibiting them again, drawing on their current documentation but also providing opportunities for further documentation.
The project will explore how AI can help to reactivate, document and archive complex artworks, including:
- artworks created through AI
- how to curate the exhibition of artworks, whether through historical records or their reactivations
- preserving them for posterity
Resolving challenges
The project will explore how using AI could resolve what are now considered insurmountable challenges for archives and museums tasked with documenting and preserving often mutable, complex and hybrid artworks in their collections in perpetuity.
For instance, by paying close attention to how audiences engage with the work, the project will learn about the potential for AI to assist artists and audiences in navigating diverse accounts of joy, loss and regret.
Using AI to reenact past recordings of artworks may enable interactions between members of the same community in different times and in this way transcend time boundaries within the same community.
On the other hand, when used by audiences of different communities, the same use of AI has the potential to bridge cultural and geographical boundaries.
