“Exploring the Digital Archive as a Thinking Space – AI Aspects on Documentation, Access and Knowledge Discovery” presented by Strauss and Fleischmann

Symposium:

• ISEA2023: 28th International Symposium on Electronic Art
• More presentations from ISEA2023:  

• Summit on New Media Art Archiving: Papers - Artists & Archives

• Exploring the Digital Archive as a Thinking Space – AI Aspects on Documentation, Access and Knowledge Discovery

• Wolfgang Strauss
• Monika Fleischmann

Venue(s):

• Forum des Images, Paris, France

• Most digital archives still offer access through phonebook-like lists. However, the digital archive is a living (data) culture. An Artificial Intelligence chatbot predicts that the digital archives of the future will enhance the user experience. However, the authors developed the archive platform netzspannung.org more than 20 years ago with Knowledge Discovery interfaces such as Semantic Map that allow people to engage with the archive in an interactive and performative way. This approach enables visitors to become active participants and co-creators of the archive’s content, rather than passive viewers. It is not primarily about finding familiar information, but about searching and browsing in unfamiliar contexts. The goal is to create a participatory experience that encourages visitors to become data performers in a walk-through thinking space and to acquire new knowledge.

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Project Website:

• http://netzspannung.org/index_en_static.html

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Keywords:

• audio
• data performer
• knowledge discovery
• living data
• performative interface
• semantic mapping
• thinking space
• visual interface
• walk-through

Category:

• Summit