Kean-Chuan Lim

Kean-Chuan Lim is an award winning producer and developer on AI , spatial and immersive exhibitions. Recent work includes “Rekko Rennie x Vacheron Constantin” (2025), “Meta Reality Labs” (2024), “Imaginary Friends” at WA Boola Bardip (2023), “Digital Humans” for Australian Digital Health Association (2022), “Talking to the Past” at Melbourne Knowledge Week (2021), and projection mapped stable diffusion for Butoh Out! “Blessed Chaos” production (2021). He has also explored world scale narratives with Kunst Lab, Nasjonaalmuseet and “Munchs Digital Garden” (2020).

Prior to that he was the immersive tech lead at Art Processors / Mona Museum with the team winning an AAM Muse award for “Donald Thomson: Awaken” at Arts West (2018). Working with youth in Arnhem Land to tell their stories through 3d object reconstruction and 4k immersive capture. He wanders on a path with heart and absolute trust in one’s sensibilities, occasionally stopping to look at the moon. Paper buddhist, practising human, and likes the unexpected. Recreated the smell of rain once. Brought people back from the dead twice.

Kean-Chuan Lim will be speaking at the Digital Exhibitions Summit 2026 :

AI in Exhibitions : Notes From The Field

AI promises a great deal for museums and frightens them in equal measure. Drawing on three exhibitions built with real collections this talk offers field notes on doing it responsibly: the safety problems we encountered, how we overcame them, and how to build a more literate and clear eyed approach to AI in public spaces. Including techniques for training models on cultural heritage material.

The three projects for discussion include colorisation of WW2 era archival photographs at Grini Prison Camp with Kunst Lab in Oslo, “Talking to the Past” at Melbourne Knowledge Week 2021 recreating the voice of William Buckley from his 1836 memoir, and “Imaginary Friends” at WA Museum Boola Bardip where performance artist Danielle Freakley and children used AI to bring drawings of their imaginary friends to life to be projected onto Perth’s buildings after dark. Running through all three is the single principle that AI proposes, the curator verifies — and audiences are not misled.