The Sydney Jewish Museum recently opened its new high-tech exhibition Reverberations: A future for memory, which utilises AI technology to preserve the stories of Australian Holocaust survivors for future generations.
Visitors can intimately encounter the stories of 43 Australian Holocaust survivors at the exhibition, while exploring an immersive gallery of high-definition footage. They can also have one-on-one “conversations” with three life-like interactive Holocaust survivor biographies, that use AI to respond to whatever questions you ask them.
You can ask these digitised survivor biographies anything – including that of the Eddie Jaku, author of ‘The Happiest Man on Earth’ – from their experiences in the Holocaust, to their lives after the war, their beliefs, likes, dislikes and even their messages to future generations. It feels like there’s a real survivor sitting in front of you.
We interviewed Senior Curator, Shannon Biederman, to learn more about Reverberations, from its origins to its future implications, and gain a better understanding of the purpose and importance of this milestone exhibition.
“The Sydney Jewish Museum was founded 30 years ago by the generation of Holocaust survivors who made new lives in Sydney after the war. Over many years, we have have documented and recorded thousands of Holocaust survivor testimonies. With the advent of high-definition cameras and new filming techniques, the museum has created an extraordinary archive of material that we hoped would one day form the basis of a high-tech testimony exhibition like this one.
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