Turn Every Artwork
Into a Conversation

Every artwork has a story. CONTXT lets your visitors discover it through natural dialogue, at their pace and in their language.

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What is this enormous sculpture in the middle of the rotunda?

How It Works

Transform your exhibition materials into an intelligent library in under 60 minutes.
Powering personalized mediation that meets every visitor's curiosity the moment it arises.

Exhibition Library

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curatorial_essay.pdf

Build Your Library

Upload artworks, curatorial texts, press materials, and supplementary media. CONTXT indexes everything.

Voice & Tone

Primary Language

English

Response Length

Concise

Balanced

Detailed

Custom Instructions

Describe how the AI should communicate...

Set Your Voice & Tone

Configure your AI's personality — tone, language, and response style — to match your institution's character.

Review

The spinning fans are GPU coolers playing hymns composed by Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst — the computation phase of AI training, turned into music.

Sources

Curatorial Essay, p.3

Press Kit

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Stay In Control

Choose your level of oversight — from fully automatic to citation-level review. Every answer is grounded in your materials, always.

Insights

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Learn What Resonates

Discover which artworks and ideas resonate most. See the questions visitors actually ask and how curiosity flows through your exhibition.

Ideas That Translate

Every artwork inspires questions. CONTXT lets your visitors ask them — in their own language — and get answers as rich as a conversation with a curator standing beside them.

Performance, sculpture, video, painting — every medium has a story to tell. CONTXT adds zero physical footprint to your exhibition. Visitors use their own phones. No hardware, no signage, no disruption.

A New Way to Experience Art

Your full curatorial expertise, supercharged and everywhere at once — empowering visitors to dig deeper, spark conversations, and share discoveries with friends. Inclusive by design, because every visitor deserves the tools to understand the work in front of them.

What is this piece?

This is The Hearth by Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst — an AI trained on choral singing.

Why a choir?

Herndon sees choirs and AI as coordination technologies. Both create collective meaning from individual voices.

Can I hear it?

Yes — the installation plays live. Move closer and you'll hear the harmonies shift.

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Scan & Go

No queues, no fixed paths — just scan a QR code and follow your curiosity. On your own device, at your own pace. During and even after your visit.

What are those spinning fans?

GPU fans playing hymns by Herndon & Dryhurst — the computation phase of AI training, turned into music...

Ask Questions

Photograph any artwork and start a conversation. CONTXT identifies the piece and draws on the exhibition's full curatorial context to answer.

My Archive

Save Artworks

Save artworks to a personal archive that grows with every exhibition you visit. Your own collection, built by curiosity.

The Hearth

Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst

"Both are coordination technologies. For thousands of years, choirs have created collective meaning. Herndon sees AI as the latest chapter."

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Share Discoveries

Share conversations and discoveries with friends. Every share links back to your exhibition — turning visitors into your best ambassadors.

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