Events

In this live online discussion – the closing chapter of our second Digital Memory Dialogues – we bring together contributors from academia, education, and creative practice, who have been exploring this question in ‘Dialogues II: Artificial Intelligence’.

Please join us, as we hear from:

• Guest Editors, Dr Mykola Makhortykh and Maryna Sydorova (University of Bern), who initiated the conversation with their provocation piece: In Search of the North Start for AI and Holocaust Memory.
  
  
• Film Director, XR Artist, Art Director and Academic Researcher, Evgeny Kalachikhin (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF), who proposes three commitments towards a framework of Holocaust-sensitive AI.
  
  
• An academic team from the AI and Cultural Heritage Lab, UCLA, including Prof. Todd Presner, Anna Bonazzi, Dr. Ulysses Pascal, Aileen Tang, Sophia Toubian and Dr. Alex Wasdahl, who provide detailed analysis of Large Language Model outputs to suggest that they can only ever approximate authenticity, evoking a ‘Holocaust vibe’.
  
  
• Pedagogical Director of Yad Vashem, Dr. Yael Richler-Friedman, who contemplates the significance and meaning of ‘authenticity’ in debates about artificially created historical content.
  
  
• Dr. Atay Kozlovski (University of Zurich), who considers the extent to which specific AI models can be used to support survivors’ agency over their stories into the future, or risk others instrumentalising their voices.

The conversation will build on the contributors’ written pieces, which have been released, open access, each week on www.digitalmemorydialogues.com, the innovative digital publishing platform from the Landecker Digital Memory Lab.

The event is free to join, but registration is required.