Jemimah Widdicombe

Jemimah Widdicombe leads the development of temporary exhibitions as Curator at the National Communication Museum (NCM) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia. Her work focuses on the intersection of culture and technology, and is underpinned by foundations in human interaction research & design and cultural production.

Jemimah’s curatorial career spans over a decade of interdisciplinary projects, including strategic exhibitions, collections and content roles at Museums Victoria and the University of Melbourne, coupled with extensive experience in digital research, education and cultural program coordination in Kanaky New Caledonia and France.

Jemimah Widdicombe will be speaking at the Museum AI Summit :

How to build a museum? Creating the National Communication Museum

This presentation goes behind the scenes to explore the role of Artificial Intelligence in creating Melbourne’s first new museum in 25 years. Picture a future collection co-developed by creative coders and generative AI, a late-night phone booth that calls you from the darkness, a Pasifika-led interactive that uses gesture recognition to share cultural knowledge and a 100% human-made curated internet. Through a series of case studies, let’s examine the possibilities, limits and ethical challenges at the intersection of museums, humans and AI-powered technology.