- 05.12.2023
As the project comes to an end in 2023, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people and institutions involved!
- 22.11.2023
With new texts by Hannes Bajohr, Mél Hogan, Moritz Ibing et al., and Giulia Taurino as well as all transcripts of the video interviews and materials from the project. Designed by Off Office, Munich.
- 27.10.2023
A software has been developed that assists curators in searching their own collections faster and more conveniently and that enables personalization of search results via AI-supported human-machine interaction.
- 19.10.2023
The seventh Working Paper in the series on the research project has been published by Dominik Bönisch (Ludwig Forum) and Francis Hunger (HMKV) on the topic »‘From Keras Import Curating' – An Empirical Study on the Application of Curatorial Practice to Machine Learning Models« and is available for free download.
- 29.09.2023
Maya Ganesh discusses in the interview how artistic works have influenced the critique of artificial intelligence in recent years.
- 28.08.2023
The interview explores Ridler's relationship to AI art and her own artistic engagement with generative visual processes.
- 19.04.2023
The sixth working paper in the series on the research project has been published by Francis Hunger (HMKV) on the topic »Unhype Artificial 'Intelligence'! A proposal to replace the deceiving terminology of AI« and is available for free download.
- 31.03.2023
The interview asks how Artificial Intelligence can be explored creatively, artistically and critically - also to create an adequate teaching and mediation of AI.
- 22.03.2023
This interview puts current technological developments in artificial intelligence in perspective with the history of computing.
- 24.01.2023
The fifth working paper in the series on the research project has been published by Francis Hunger (HMKV) on the topic »Point Clouds. Scatterplots and Tables as User Interfaces of Artificial 'Intelligence'« is available for free download.
- 13.12.2022
All talks of the conference on "Art & Algorithms" on the 17th and 18th of November 2022 at the Ludwig Forum Aachen are available as videos for re-watching on YouTube.
- 16.11.2022
Laboratory with the results of the research project can be seen in the Ludwig Forum Aachen on the 1st floor until further notice.
- 09.11.2022
The interview explores historical and functional aspects of the ImageNet image dataset using the collection of the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, as an example.
- 18.10.2022
The program of the conference on »Art and Algorithms« is published. You can find the timetable for the event on the 17th and 18th of November 2022 at the Ludwig Forum Aachen here or download it as a PDF.
- 17.10.2022
The speakers at the conference on »Art and Algorithms« on November 17 and 18, 2022 at the Ludwig Forum Aachen have been confirmed. You can find more information about the internationally active lecturers in this article.
- 15.10.2022
In the podcast »Kunstrauschen,« questions are posed to the research project on the development and use of AI in museum practice and explained in a way that is suitable for children.
- 26.09.2022
In this interview with Barbara Büscher for »MAP - Media | Archive | Performance« questions are posed to the research project on the development and use of AI in museum practice.
- 16.09.2022
Talk on »Training the Archive« as part of the session »Storytelling and Artificial Intelligence« at the Qurator Conference 2022 at the Naturkundemuseum Berlin.
- 25.07.2022
The fourth working paper in the series on the research project has been published by Dr. Inke Arns (HMKV) on the topic »Can Artificial Intelligence be biased? On the critique of AI's 'algorithmic Bias' in the arts« is available for free download.
- 24.06.2022
The conference on »Art and Algorithms« will take place on site at the Ludwig Forum Aachen on 17 and 18.11.2022 with keynote, lectures and book reading by international scholars.
- 08.06.2022
Interview with Elisa Giardina Papa on YouTube about the myth of universality, transparency and truth in the context of emotion and AI.
- 23.05.2022
HANNOVER MESSE is the leading knowledge and networking platform for the manufacturing, energy and logistics industries. On 31.05.22 our project will also be presented.
- 27.04.2022
An overview interview with Matteo Pasquinelli on YouTube about the ideological, the logical, the technical and the social form of AI.
- 30.03.2022
Date: 30.03.-01.04.2022 Place: Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel
- 07.03.2022
Published on Zenodo as part of the poster session for the conference »DHd2022« - 8th annual conference of the association »Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum«.
- 18.02.2022
The German-language toolkit on the topic of »Artificial Intelligence and Museums« has been published online and in print with an article on the Ludwig Forum.
- 16.02.2022
Together, Ulises Mejias and Nick Couldry discuss data as an abstraction of life and describe in the interview how data is extracted and colonially exploited.
- 28.01.2022
The proceedings of the international conference of the same name (April 2021) are now available for free download as an e-book entitled »Art, Museums and Digital Cultures → Rethinking Change.«
- 13.01.2022
26 January 2022, 6 p.m.: As part of the »Briefings - Short Talks on Innovative Research« with focus on the museum.
- 18.11.2021
The third working paper in the series on the research project has been published for free download by Francis Hunger (HMKV) on »Curation and its Statistical Automation by means of Artificial 'Intelligence'.«
- 05.11.2021
Adam Harvey is all about critically examining artificial intelligence training data. Harvey is a Berlin-based researcher and artist working on artificial intelligence, privacy, and surveillance.
- 25.10.2021
»Training the Archive« as part of the programme is also presented. Read more about it on page 21 in the magazine!
- 15.10.2021
Magda Tyzlik-Carver explores the webs of relationships between humans and the non-human of software and algorithms. In doing so, she ties into the concepts of the »post-human« that also come up in the interview.
- 04.10.2021
»Training the Archive« will take part in the annual conference of the Association of Art Historians in Switzerland (VKKS) in Basel.
- 09.09.2021
»Training the Archive« takes part in the paper session »Infrastructuring knowledge work in digital relations« on Tuesday, September 14, 2021 from 9:30 am.
- 22.06.2021
Lecture at the online workshop of the Institute of Art History of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum on 28.06.2021. Registration is possible by email to: virtuelle-kunst@ruhr-uni-bochum.de and is still possible until 27.06.21.
- 07.06.2021
The conference of the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR) on the topic of »Museum and the Internet« takes place annually in May and is aimed at employees of museums, exhibition centres and cultural administrations as well as archives and libraries.
- 04.05.2021
The first working paper »The Curator's Machine: Clustering of Museum Collection Data through Annotation of Hidden Connection Patterns between Artworks« has been published in the International Journal for Digital Art History in issue 5: History of Digital Art.
- 16.04.2021
The international conference on »Art, Museums and Digital Cultures« brings together different scientific and creative perspectives on the interfaces between information technologies and art. Organised by the MAAT Museum Lisbon and the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
- 27.03.2021
The Association of German Art Historians, in collaboration with the Ulmer Verein and the Arbeitskreis Digitale Kunstgeschichte, is organising the online conference »Digital Experiences and Strategies in Art History after a Year of the Corona Pandemic« on 26/27 March 2021.
- 17.03.2021
From 17-30 March 2021, »Training the Archive« was part of the »Cambridge Cultural Heritage Data School« at the University of Cambridge. To the programme.
- 13.01.2021
On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 17:25 Dominik Bönisch, Research Project Manager, will give a presentation at the online conference »The Art Museum in the Digital Age« at the Belvedere in Vienna.
- 10.12.2020
The scientific research project »Training the Archive« started at the Ludwig Forum Aachen and the HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund at the beginning of 2020. Now a new partner has been found at RWTH Aachen University in the form of the Visual Computing Institute headed by Prof. Dr. Leif Kobbelt, so that the next phase of the project can begin.
- 17.11.2020
»Training the Archive« is part of the poster session at the online conference »dhnord2020 - The Measurement of Images. Computational Approaches in the History and Theory of the Artism.«
- 05.09.2020
From 1-5 September 2020, »Training the Archive« was part of the DAHSS - Digital Art History Summer School at the University of Málaga.
- 26.06.2020
The first Prototype in the research project »Training the Archive« has been published. It makes it possible to cluster image data from a museum collection in order to identify interesting visual connections between artworks.
- 29.05.2020
From November 2019 to May 2020, Dominik Bönisch, scientific project manager of »Training the Archive,« completed the so-called »KI-Schule« (AI School) of the Lower Saxony Foundation (Stiftung Niedersachsen).
- 07.02.2020
At the beginning of 2020, a new scientific research project on the digital transformation in cultural institutions will start at the Ludwig Forum Aachen with »Training the Archive.« To the press release.
