On the occasion of the European Night of Museums, the Maison d’Arthur Rimbaud – Maison des Ailleurs invites the public to converse with Arthur Rimbaud’s digital twin as part of the Bonjour Rimbaud experience carried out in collaboration with Jumbo Mana.
The Charleville-Mézières museum team turned to artificial intelligence to offer an experience at the crossroads between history, literature and innovation. In collaboration with Jumbo Mana, the startup to which we owe the conversational experience on Alexa enabling you to converse with Van Gogh, the Maison d’Arthur Rimbaud – Maison des Ailleurs offers the public the opportunity to communicate personally with Arthur’s digital twin. Rimbaud. A digital terminal was installed in the museum to allow visitors to converse with the avatar of the legendary poet.
Attract an unusual audience
“The Arthur Rimbaud museum chose to conduct an experiment at the intersection of literature, history and new technologies. This implies testing new cultural mediation tools and evaluating their ability to make culture close to everyone and accessible. Are new technologies an answer to the problems of culture for everyone? For the city of Charleville-Mézières, where Arthur Rimbaud was born, it is a matter of promoting the life and work of the poet as widely as possible and offering it to the uninitiated public. to explain Carole Marquet-Morelle, Director of Museums, at the City of Charleville-Mézières, as reported by CLIC.
Little known face of the poet
And if popular culture often immortalized the legendary poet as a 17-year-old teenager, the digital twin created as part of the experiment is none other than Rimbaud the adventurer who explored Europe, Indonesia and Africa. The opportunity to present a lesser-known face of the thirty-year-old poet as part of the exhibition. Able to recite his poems, Arthur Rimbaud’s digital double is also able to interact with the public, sharing in particular his taste for adventure or innovation.
With the title Bonjour Rimbaud, the exhibition opens its doors to the public from May 18, 2024 on the occasion of the museum night and is part of the series of projects that the City of Charleville-Mézières is implementing in recent months around Arthur Rimbaud , to celebrate the 170th anniversary of his birth in 2024.