Tabea Widmann

Tabea Widmann works as the referent for digital education at the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen. She previously headed projects on games and foreign policy and the culture of remembrance for the Foundation for Digital Games Culture in Berlin. The cultural scientist completed her doctorate at the University of Konstanz with her dissertation ‘The Game is the Memory’ on digital games as media of memory culture. Her areas of interest are societal transformations through digital media, digital participation and responsibility.

Tabea Widmann will be speaking at the Museum AI Summit :

Choose a Voice for Your Audio Guide

The use of an AI-based language generator for the new museum guide, combined with the encounter of its various simulated speakers, their voices, and personas, once again brings all the questions of authenticity, authority, knowledge hierarchies, and stereotypes in the museum to the forefront. It’s actually the perfect opportunity to check one’s own biases and privileges – both as individuals and as an institution.