writer and art nuisance, Uncomfortable Art Tours and The Whole Picture, also @HistoryFriction, allegedly a phd student. she/they
New York, NY
Joined February 2015
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The Whole Picture is now El Cuadro Completo! My book has been published in a new Spanish edition 💛 I’m so grateful to @Capitan_Swing, and excited for this work to have a new audience and life
🟡 NOVEDAD 🟡
Una lectura imprescindible para visibilizar la historia colonial excluida en las narrativas museísticas y convertirse en un visitante capaz de reconocer los relatos que el museo suele ocultar.
El cuadro completo. La historia colonial del arte en nuestros museos, de @aaprocter.
#YaEnLibrerías
our book club read Talk by Linda Rosenkrantz and my wife @hesafruit brought their laptop to the bar in order to give a presentation of their investigations into the real identity of “Vincent”… they cracked the case…
it's genuinely incredible to me that more major US museums don't have land acknowledgements - not because I think they're a fantastic solution, but because they're the barest minimum for starting reflective museum practice hyperallergic.com/957768/wha…
Alice A. Procter retweeted
🌀 you want to make zines with me and @nosiejaron tonight.... you want to come to interference archive so bad 🌀
ALT "Zine Club" and underneath "Interference Archive. October 21st. 6:30pm. All levels of experience welcome". Pink text against a purple background with scissors, pencil, glue.
And I think the answers are pretty clearly
1: potentially, but not when the data set is entirely drawn from the institutional archive, and not without some serious thought on how the entire classificatory structure of museums is structured
2: no fucking way
No.
The goal of this project was to test two things:
- Is semantic search a better way for visitors to navigate sprawling museum collections?
- Is dialogue (w/ artifacts or AI guide) a better modality for education/fun?
More details here: livingmuseum.app/
I support the intention of making collections more accessible, but I think this project is ultimately quite naive and that’s without even touching the implications of using NLP/AI
Alice A. Procter retweeted
Every new AI museum project I see and it's a fundamental misinterpretation of what actual human-made interpretation can do for understanding historical objects and their stories rather than regurgitated digital slop tipping us further into climate catastrophe.
Today I'm releasing The Living Museum, an experimental interface for the British Museum that brings its digital collection to life using AI.
livingmuseum.app/explore
I am jetlagged out of my mind and body and you’re telling me that some guy has made a British Museum collection chatbot where all the artefacts are happy to be there??
