Case Study Showcase

Highlighting Case Studies

Projects that illustrate the impact of AI technologies on historical research and heritage.

Digital memorial to the victims of Nazism
Arolsen Archives | Bad Arolsen, Germany | 2024
A project employing artificial intelligence to automatically extract and link information about victims of Nazi persecution from over a million documents, such as detainee lists from camps like Westerbork. This AI-driven approach enhances the reconstruction of individual life stories and enriches the comprehensive online archive, making it more accessible to people worldwide.
Exhibition: ‘Relive the Liberation of 1944’
Army Museum | Paris, France | 2024
The “Relive the Liberation of 1944” exhibition is a collaborative project between Iconem, Microsoft, the Musée de l’Armée, and the Mission Libération. It uses artificial intelligence to analyze and reconstruct World War II archives, providing an immersive experience of key historical moments, such as the D-Day landings in Normandy and the liberation of Paris.
Exhibition: ‘Voices from the Front’
National WWII Museum | New Orleans, USA | 2024
An interactive exhibit at The National WWII Museum that enables visitors to engage in real-time conversations with over a dozen World War II veterans, Home Front workers, Holocaust survivors, and other witnesses to the war. Utilizing advanced technology and a vast repository of prerecorded responses, the exhibit offers authentic answers in each interviewee’s own words and voice, providing a personal connection to history.
Dimensions in Testimony
Museum of Jewish Heritage | New York, USA
An interactive installation that allows visitors to engage in virtual conversations with Holocaust survivors. Through advanced technology and pre-recorded projections, guests can ask questions and receive real-time responses, preserving firsthand accounts for future generations.
Photography: ‘We Are At War’
Artist: Phillip Toledano | USA
A project by conceptual artist Phillip Toledano that explores the malleability of history and truth in the age of artificial intelligence. By using AI, Toledano imagines a lost roll of 36 images from photographer Robert Capa’s D-Day coverage, where only 11 images survived due to a lab mishap. This work demonstrates how convincingly history can be reinvented, prompting reflection on the implications for our understanding of the past, present, and future.
thread-of-memory
Multimedia : Thread of Memory
Microsoft, Iconem et le musée de l’Armée, France, 2024
This web project, directly linked to Exhibition: ‘Relive the Liberation of 1944’ uses AI for Description of images.