A professor of digital museology at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, Professor Sarah Kenderdine researches at the forefront of interactive and immersive experiences for museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
Kenderdine is considered a pioneer in the fields of digital heritage and digital museology, and is a regular keynote speaker at related forums internationally, including the World Economic Forum (WEF).
She has built a new laboratory for experimental museology (eM+) at EPFL. This explores the convergence of aesthetic practice, visual analytics and cultural data. She also serves as the director and lead curator of EPFL’s new art/science initiative, inaugurated in 2016 as ArtLab. In addition, she develops interactive and immersive experiences for museums and galleries, often employing interactive cinema and augmented reality (AR).
Kenderdine has produced more than 80 exhibitions and installations for museums worldwide and has 35 peer-reviewed publications, including two books to her name. In addition to her museum exhibition work, Kenderdine conceives and designs large-scale immersive visualisation systems for public audiences, industry and researchers.
She curated the recent Deep Fakes: Art and its Double exhibition at EPFL, which she said was “the culmination of several years of new creative practices emerging from the world of computer science”. Kenderdine added: “It was only recently that artists and producers began to fully grasp the potential of computational production and new forms of art.” The exhibition showcased technologies disrupting the art world, including artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, interactive and immersive media, and 3D and 5D printing.