Center for the Art of East Asia

As AI becomes increasingly applied across academic disciplines, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs), this workshop invites participants to reflect on the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI workflows and applications into East Asian Art digital collections. Through panel discussion and hands-on engagement, participants are asked to explore these questions: What can AI uncover about East Asian Art digital collections that would otherwise remain hidden, and conversely, what might East Asian Art digital collections themselves reveal about the biases and limitations of AI?

We’ll also highlight CAEA initiative - Dispersed Chinese Art Digitization Project (DCADP).

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Featured Speakers

Stephen Whiteman — Professor of the Art and Architecture of China, Courtauld Institute of Art; Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Art Bulletin

Du Lin — Assistant Professor, Departments of Chinese Studies and Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore

Peter Broadwell — Manager of AI Modeling & Inference, Research Data Services Admin, Stanford University

Kwok-Leong Tang — Digital China Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

Schedule

9:30–10:00 | Morning Reception

10:00–10:30 | Opening Remarks & Dispersed Chinese Art Digitization Project

10:30–12:30 | AI and East Asian Art—Presentations & Panel Discussion (Whiteman, Du, Broadwell)

12:30–14:00 | Lunch

14:00–16:30 | Hands-on Workshop & QA—Kwok-Leong Tang

16:30–17:00 | Final Roundtable

Support

Hosted by the Center for the Art of East Asia and generously supported by the Cyrus Tang Foundation.

For questions or additional information, please contact Liang-Chun Wu at liangchunwu@uchicago.edu.