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LP-19: Emerging Technologies to Engage with Historical and Cultural Memory
Time:
Thursday, 17/July/2025:
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Session Chair: Elisa Cugliana , Universität zu Köln
Location: B302 (TB) Zoom link to be included 60 places
Presentations
Augmenting a Maquette of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp with Prisoner Artwork
Aliisa Råmark 1 , Stephanie Billib 2 , Héctor López-Carral3 , Luca Verschure4,5 , Pedro Fernandez Gomez3 , Stefan Jänicke6 , Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann7 , Chris Hall8 , Paul Verschure3,9,10
1 Radboud University, Netherlands, The; 2 Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Germany; 3 Eodyne Systems, Spain; 4 Sapiens5 Culture, The Netherlands; 5 University of Twente, The Netherlands; 6 University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; 7 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; 8 Chris Hall Design, Denmark; 9 Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain; 10 Future Memory Foundation, The Netherlands
Most Nazi persecution memorials use physical maquettes for informing the historical site’s spatial organisation to visitors. In this paper we present the Future Memory Maquette Explorer from MEMORISE exhibition at Bergen-Belsen Memorial. It uses Augmented Reality technology to allow users to explore prisoner artworks, conveying the human dimension of history.
Exploring the “Great Unseen” in Medieval Manuscripts: Instance-Level Labeling of Legacy Image Collections with Zero-Shot Models
Christofer Meinecke 1,2 , Estelle Guéville 3 , David Joseph Wrisley 4
1 Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI), Leipzig University, Germany; 2 Image and Signal Processing Group, Leipzig University, Germany; 3 Medieval Studies, Yale University, New Haven, USA; 4 Arts & Humanities, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirate
We aim to theorize the medieval manuscript page and its contents more holistically, using state of the art techniques to segment and describe the entire manuscript folio, for the purpose of creating richer training data for computer vision techniques, namely instance segmentation, and multimodal models for medieval-specific visual content.
Playing the Past, Predicting the Future: Sortes Texts in Virtual Reality
Elisa Cugliana , Øyvind Eide, Lukas Wilkens, Nadjim Noori, Pascale Boisvert, Julia Haschke
Universität zu Köln, Germany
Our project reimagines medieval sortes texts through virtual reality, combining textual scholarship with performative modeling. By situating these divinatory texts in immersive settings—monastic libraries, astrologers' laboratories, and taverns—we simulate their ritualistic and interactive nature. This approach bridges philology, media studies, and media archaeology, offering new insights into multimodal historical textuality.
