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Everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels


It is difficult to separate the issues and questions that contemporary machine-learning and “artificial intelligence” technologies raise in the context of museum without addressing the long history of past attempts to make collections “digital”  and how those efforts have played out organizationally over the years. So many of those issues end up being made manifest in the challenges surrounding the production of wall labels and this talk will discuss some inconvenient truths (and opportunities) about museums and computing that AI surfaces.

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