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THE PRESENT IS IN THE FUTURE: Participatory Generative AI Co-Created Visions as Intangible Cultural Heritage

Published: 11 December 2024 Publication History

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Museums often show visions of Cultural Heritage (CH) as tangible forms represented through our current lenses of what they ought to be in our perception, showing reconstructions that show our own limited visions and biases about what we imagine the CH to have been. Often neglected are the human connections to these sites, their childhood memories, their relationships with what happened their, their conceptions of what the CH symbolizes in their lives and their communities. We applied Generative AI (GenAI) to let participants express their visions of CH in concrete forms, showing their relationships to these sites through the process of GenAI interactions that lead to visual depictions full of details revealing their perceptions of the CH. The resulting images are shown as images of different CH locations in Hong Kong on a map as imagined present and future forms, and also as a set of drawings iteratively being sketched by a drawing-robot, which converts the intangible form of record into tangible media. This work demonstrates the use of GenAI technology to empower a form of realization of human imagination for social purpose.

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    VINCI '24: Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction
    December 2024
    286 pages
    ISBN:9798400709678
    DOI:10.1145/3678698
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    2. Intangible Cultural Heritage
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