Cultures of Artificial Intelligence

09:30

Registration

Badisches Landesmuseum, Gartensaal

10:00

Opening 
(hybrid access)

• Prof. Dr. Eckart Köhne, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
• Els van der Plas, Allard Pierson Amsterdam
• Dr. Tabea Golgath, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Hannover

10:15

Introduction

• Dr. Johannes Bernhardt, Sonja Thiel, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Etienne Posthumus, Allard Pierson Amsterdam 

10:30

Keynote

• Prof. Dr. Mercedes Bunz, London: The Role of Culture in the Intelligence of AI

11:30

Coffee-Break

11:45

Session 1: 

Reflect 
(hybrid access)

• Dr. Baptiste Caramiaux, Paris: Artificial Intelligence in the Creative and Cultural Sectors. The Case of Museum and Cultural Heritage
• Timo Daum, Leipzig: Unboxing Machine Learning. Data Handling Toolbox and Digital Capitalism’s Go-To Machine

12:45

Lunchbreak

14:00

• Dr. Arno Schubbach, Basel: AI & Art. Argument for Practice
• Oumaima Hajri, Rotterdam: The Hidden Costs of AI: deepening our understanding of decolonisation from practice back to theory

15:00

Session 2: 

Empower 
(hybrid access)

• Dr. Oonagh Murphy, London: Power, Data and Control: Critical Technology Discourse in the Museum
• Marion Carré, Paris: Archives, Fake News and AI

16:00

Coffee-Break

16:15

• Luba Elliott, London: Discovering Culture with AI 
• Clemens Neudecker, Berlin: Digital Curation and Collections for AI. Opportunities and Risks for Cultural Heritage Institutions

17:15

Summary 

• Dr. Johannes Bernhardt, Sonja Thiel, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Etienne Posthumus, Allard Pierson Amsterdam

17:30

End of Day 1

18:30

Get Together in museum x

09:30

Session 3: 

Next Intelligence 
(hybrid access)

• Prof. Dr. Harald Sack, Karlsruhe: Symbolic vs. Subsymbolic Knowledge Representation, an Epic Dilemma?
• Dr. Sonja Schimmler, Berlin: Transparency, Reproducibility and Fairness in Data Science and AI
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand, Karlsruhe: The Janus-Faced Nature of (Weak) AI

11:00

Coffee-Break 

11:15

• Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother, Fabio Mariani, Lüneburg: From Quantity to Quality. Structuring Provenance Data
• Prof. Dr. Christoph Bareither, Tübingen: Cultures of AI. Perspectives from Digital Anthropology and their Potential for the Field of Museum Studies

12:15

Lunchbreak

13:15

Open Session in museum x: 

Lightening Talks

Posters & Demos 

• Dr. Stefan Schaffer, Oliver Gustke, Berlin: CHIM. Chatbot in Museum Goes Open Source
• Dr. Nicole High-Steskal, Krems, Dr. Rainer Simon, Wien: Linking Viennese Art through Artificial Intelligence. Evaluating the Blackbox
• Valentin Vogelman, Amsterdam: The SociAl BIas Observatory. Algorithmic Perspectives in the Human Search of Biases in Collections
• Lukáš Pilka, Prag: Digital Curator: Motifs and Themes in Central European Fine Art Explored by Computer Vision
• Ana Müller, Köln, Anke Neumeister, Stralsund: "Talk to me!" Research and Development of AI-based Conversations in a Museum
• Franz Köferl, Erlangen: Real-Time Visitor Tracking for Deutsches Museum Nürnberg
• Melanie Fahden, Dr. Anja Gebauer, Hamburg: With Artificial Intelligence to Art! Chatting with Salomé and Co. through IBM Watson
• Prof. Michael Zöllner, Markus Bosl, Dirk Widmann, Moritz Krause, Hof: Symotiv – Virtual Insights into the Symphony Orchestra
• Dominik Bönisch, Aachen: Curating Museum Collection Data with the Curator's Machine
• Lukas Hughes-Noehrer, Manchester: Inferring User Interaction from Data. Using Museum Recommender System.
• Prof. Dr. Tamim Asfour, Franziska Krebs, Dr. Linda Nierling, Dr. Maria Maia, Pascal Vetter, Nora Weinberger, Karlsruhe: Real-World Lab „Robotic Artificial Intelligence”
• Yannick Hofmann, Karlsruhe/Nürnberg: ofxTensorFlow2 - A Media Arts Application for Creative Empowerment in the AI Field
• Sonja Thiel, Etienne Posthumus, Murat Kazokoglu, Karlsruhe, Amsterdam, Berlin: xCurator – AI Curation Tool for Museum Data & User Empowerment

15:30

 End of Day 2