The Holocaust remembered with futuristic technology
Image: REVERBERATIONS: A FUTURE FOR MEMORY. Image: Sydney Jewish Museum.
By Will McLennan
The rising and powerful tool of artificial intelligence is helping create new ways for people to commemorate past events. Currently on at the Sydney Jewish Museum, Reverberations: A Future Memory, uses artificial intelligence to create a fully immersive exhibition, allowing visitors to understand and appreciate the Holocaust from a new perspective.
Through prior-recorded footage, visitors can converse and interact with three Holocaust survivors: Olga Horak, Yvonne Engelman, and the late Eddie Jaku. These survivors and an additional few were interviewed extensively during a five-day period in the summer of 2020-21, answering around around 1,000 questions about their experiences in the Holocaust, their lives, interests and hopes for the future, while being filmed within a specialised rig with 23 cameras.
Olga, Yvonne, and Eddie appear as a life-sized, realistic digital renderings respectively on three separate screens. Visitors can stand in front of each screen and ask questions which will be answered in real time, as if they were actually conversing with the person on the screen.
As part of the exhibition there is a daily behind-the-scenes presentation that reveals the digital magic that has helped create Reverberations: A Future Memory.
The exhibition also features the stories of 43 other Holocaust survivors, presented in images and text in a multi-media walk-through display.
The immersive exhibition will run on Sundays and Mondays during normal museum opening hours.
Until March 28, 2024
Sydney Jewish Museum, 148 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst
sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au
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