Museum Connections 2024

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Karen DROST

Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision

Manager Museum

Biography

As Manager Museum of Sound & Vision, Karen Drost is responsible for the new highly interactive Media Museum. During the development of the new museum her focus was on concept development, the visitor experience, interaction and accessibility. Karen is an experienced manager of exhibitions and innovative museum exhibits. In addition to her work at Sound & Vision, Karen works as a freelance museum consultant.

EVENTS

Find us at the following events:
Jan 16, 2024
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

AI & museums: towards a new visitor experience?

Sam BOMPAS (BOMPAS & PARR / MUSEUM OF SHAKESPEARE)Karen DROST (Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision)Laurent GAVEAU (INDÉPENDANT)
Description
Digital technology and interactivity as a means of spreading knowledge seem to have reached a tipping point with AI and the ultra-personalisation of online cultural experience. But what about AI as part of the physical museum visit, and, for example, the use of controversial technologies such as facial recognition? The Sound & Vision Museum in the Netherlands, the ""first museum in the world that constantly adapts to visitors' actions"", has done it, and the team in charge of the new Museum of Shakespeare (due to open in London in 2025) is in the process of developing it. Could this be the beginning of an innovation that could spread throughout the museum world? We will, however, address the thorny issue of personal data protection.
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