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ArcaiArt

A project exploring the responsible use of AI in the creation, archiving, reactivation and conservation of artworks and their archives.

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About the project

Funder

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Timeframe

2025–2028

In partnership with

Dr Lydia Farina at the Department of Philosophy, with co-investigators based in University of Nottingham, Coventry University, the University of Exeter, Goldsmiths, London South Bank University, and the University of Dundee.

The National Archives' project lead

John Moore

This project aims to create new knowledge on responsible innovation and creativity when AI is used to create, document, reactivate and conserve artworks and their archives.

Reactivating artworks in the context of this project will involve performing or exhibiting them again, drawing on their current documentation. It will also provide opportunities for further documentation.

The project will explore how AI can help to reactivate, document and archive complex artworks, including:

  • artworks created through AI
  • how to curate the exhibition of artworks, whether through historical records or their reactivations;
  • preserving them for posterity

The project explores how using AI could resolve what are now considered overwhelming challenges for archives and museums tasked with documenting and preserving often-mutable, complex and hybrid artworks in their collections in perpetuity.

Learn more about ArcaiArt