‘The digital has a big role to play in the decolonisation of museums’ Premium

”Computational museology comprises of a range of technologies that go from generative AI technologies, computer graphics, large-scale interactive visualisation, human-computer interaction as well as many imaging technologies,” says Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, a professor at the École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland where she leads the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+).

”Computational museology comprises of a range of technologies that go from generative AI technologies, computer graphics, large-scale interactive visualisation, human-computer interaction as well as many imaging technologies,” says Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, a professor at the École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland where she leads the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+).

Kenderdine, who was in Bengaluru recently to deliver a lecture titled ‘Museums in the Age of Experience’, an introduction to her work in computational museology, at the Science Gallery, refers to this emerging field as “an enframing concept that connects machine intelligence with data curation, the word of knowledge to visualisation and various communities with embodied interaction through immersive interfaces,” says Kenderdine, also the director and lead curator of EPFL Pavilions, an initiative that blends experimental curatorship and contemporary aesthetics with open science, digital humanism and emerging technologies. “Our research is not finished until the public is engaged with it.”