Sami Itavuori

Sami P. Itävuori (he/they) is a Finnish-British researcher, cultural programmer and curator working at the intersection of museology, advanced technologies and digital humanities. They are doctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (London South Bank University), Royal College of Art and Tate Gallery in London. He has a keen interest in the art museum and its relationship to audiences, collections, networks and machines in the age of AI. He sits on the board nominating committee of the Swedish not-for-profit arts organization Anrikningsverket and co-produces the experimental music and art festival Norbergfestival.

Sami P. Itävuori will be speaking at the Museum AI Summit :

Online Museum Collections and Training Datasets: where do images go online?

In their talk “Online Museum Collections and AI Datasets: where do images go online?”, Sami Itävuori will talk about how digital collection images produced by the museum end up in training datasets for text-to-image generative AI systems and why this matters. They will show how museums can gather accurate evidence of their images being used for the training of widely used models such as Stable Diffusion, but also how this exercise enables museums to perceive a much wider network of digital circulation in which they partake.

They will present a first overview as to how museums can get accurate evidence as how their data has been used, but also the wider questions around copyright, breach of Creative Commons licenses and networked circulation that shed a new light on the practice of disseminating art collections online.