Generative Curation Symposium: Debates Around Archival and Exhibition Practices

The Generative Curation Symposium explores if and how Artificial Intelligence (AI) questions, reshapes, and intersects the practice of curation in its broadest sense—encompassing both the narrative construction of exhibitions and the organization and interpretation of archives. This symposium aims to gather scholars, art practitioners, curators, PhD researchers, and other reflective voices to critically examine the integration of AI within the world of art and cultural heritage and its institutions. We stand at a pivotal moment where machines can augment and, in some cases, even autonomously perform curatorial tasks previously reserved for human experts. This gathering will delve into the questions, challenges, risks, and opportunities this new reality presents. This symposium seeks to foster a reflective dialogue, contextualizing current developments within broader frameworks from the humanities and the digital humanities, with a focus on curatorial studies, digital visual studies, art history, and technology in the GLAM sector.

PROGRAM TO FOLLOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Keynote: Joasia Krysa, Professor of Exhibition Research, Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Biennial.

Joasia Krysa is a curator, Professor of Exhibition Research and Director of the Institute of Art and Technology at Liverpool John Moores University, with an adjunct position at Liverpool Biennial. She served as Chief Curator of the 2nd Helsinki Biennial (2023) and co-curator of the 9th Liverpool Biennial (2016) and DOCUMENTA 13 (2012). Her curatorial work was presented at major international institutions including The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, KANAL Centre Pompidou Brussels, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Helsinki Art Museum, and Tate Modern London. Recent publications include books Curating Intelligences: Reader on AI and Future Curating (London Open Humanities Press 2025) and Helsinki Biennial: New Directions May Emerge (Helsinki Art Museum 2023), a chapter in Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of New Media Art (London 2025), and forthcoming The Routledge Companion to Art and Technology (London / New York 2027).

Scientific Organization by the Center for Digital Visual Studies, the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, the Chair on 5G, Digital Culture and Next-Generation Technologies for Society, and the iArtHis_Lab, University of Málaga.