AI can be used to create the most beautiful videos and images of virtual worlds in just a few minutes. A mass phenomenon that billions of users are pursuing for private pleasure or out of professional interest. The quality of these videos and illustrations is constantly improving, creating photorealistic environments and scenes. Professional programmes can be used to create perfect illusions that are deceptively realistic, such as Ancient Rome, Caesar's legions, the Limes, a Stone Age village or a Celtic city. These scenes make the viewer believe that things looked exactly the same centuries and millennia ago. Is that true? Can AI realistically reconstruct the past when there were no film or sound recordings? What input must modern historiography and archaeology provide in order to ensure reliable reconstructions of the past? How should, can and will film-makers deal with these developments? Can or may science use visual hypotheses to convey knowledge beyond the well-founded source basis? What are the limits of this development?

Panel guests
PD Dr. Holger Wendling
Iron Age specialist, Bavarian State Archaeological Collection

Prof. Dr. Sylvia Rothe
Professor of AI in Media Production, HFF Munich / University of Television and Film Munich

Daniel Harrich
Filmmaker & journalist

Michael Gödde
Videoreality GmbH, Co-Founder & Creative Director

Moderation: Birgit Kappel (Bayerischer Rundfunk)

When and where?
5 February, 7 pm (admission 6.30 pm)
Bavarian State Archaeological Collection/Archäologische Staatssammlung, Lerchenfeldstr. 2, Forum EG
Admission free, bookable via buchung(at)archaeologie.bayern