DIZH innovation programme, 2023-2025
The project ‘The Museum of the Future’ examines the potential, areas of application, forms of content expansion and implementation options relating to digitality in forward-looking museum and educational work. In 2025, a major exhibition (17 exhibited projects) will make the ‘state of the art’ accessible to the public with several installations, a website and a broad-based educational programme (analogue and digital).
Museum of the Future is a joint project of the Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich, Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) University of Lausanne, Microsoft Technology Center , Immersive Arts Space under the direction of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.
The Immersive Arts Space contributing project is called ‘Conversations with Puppets’. It offers an innovative and interactive experience in which the audience becomes an integral part of Fred Schneckenburger’s theatre pieces. Through the use of large language models (LLMs), generative AI and augmented reality (AR), visitors can interact with life-size 3D ‘reanimations’ of Schneckenburger’s puppets (Kaspar, die Liebe, der Polizist and die Moral/das Fräulein) through their movements and speech.
Team:
Oliver Sahli (System Integration)
Florian Bruggisser ()
Stella Speziali (Scanning, Animations)
Kristina Jungic (Coordination)
Chris Salter (lead)