Our Project:
The Re-Imagining The Holburne Collection project used creative technology, community skill building and co-design to build creative technology interventions that ask questions about the future of online museum collection access and communication.
This website houses a series of experiments that use contemporary computing technologies including 3D scanning, artificial intelligence and data visualisation. The technologies employed in these interventions were explored in a series of community labs, covering subjects including 3D capture through photogrammetry, AI for object or image classification, and digital storytelling.
Explore the experiments on this website and consider how the technologies presented are changing, and will change, your experience of arts and culture online.
3D Viewer
Co-designed with The Holburne Community
Through the first community creative technology lab, we explored the use of a 3D scanning process called photogrammetry for capturing and re-interpreting cultural collections. We considered the future of museum collections in online virtual spaces.
In the second community technology lab, we looked at how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in online searches, from recommending or prioritising particular types of information or content, to image classification. We discussed how social classification both empowers communities in the interpretation of history but is also hidden human work behind modern AI systems.
Play with the below experiment to see the outcome of these workshops. See how curators, AI and the community classify objects differently.
Chatbot
Use AI to learn about actor David Garrick
This is an experimental chatbot that uses Open AI's GPT language models to generate text responses to questions about the 18th Century actor, playwright and theatre manager David Garrick. There are two painting of Garrick from the Holburne's collection below.
Click on the chat icon to learn more about the chatbot and try talking to it about David Garrick. See how much it has learnt!
