LINA RUTH HARDER

AI | Narratives | History | Digital Culture
I am a PhD Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen. I am researching and developing AI chatbots that reenact historical figures through interactive, simulated conversations.

Lectures, Presentations & Workshops

  • Upcoming University:Future Festival /imagine

    Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, Stifterverband
    14 May 2025
    "Histobots: Rewriting History, One Chat at a Time"
    Presentation

  • Weird Stories & Wicked Communities, Workshop

    Center for Digital Narrative & University of Stuttgart, Bergen, Norway
    14 March 2025
    "Haunted Algorithms: Techno-Necromancy and Ghosts in the Machine"
    Presentation

  • Art meets Tech: Web3Expressão, Creative Workshops for Artists and Cultural Professionals

    Goethe Institute Lisbon
    11 March 2025
    "AI Meets History"
    Online Workshop (Concept & Realisation)

  • AI, Politics and Society, Seminar

    Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy
    December 2024
    "Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-Generated Historical Figures on Informal Education"
    Paper Presentation

  • AI Media Research Network

    Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
    November 2024
    "Reimagining History: AI-Generated Figures in Informal Education"
    Guest Lecture

  • Digital and Digitized Traces, Conference

    Annual Conference of the Norwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Culture Organization (DHKO), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
    October 2024
    "Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-generated Historical Figures on Informal Education"
    Presentation

  • AI and Narrative, Seminar

    Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
    October 2024
    "Histobots. Echoes of History or AI Storytime?"
    Presentation

  • Gode KI-historier, Lunch Seminar

    Kommunikasjonsavdelingen, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
    September 2024
    "In Conversation with Hedy Lamarr. 'Reanimating' Historical Figures with Artificial Intelligence"
    Presentation

  • AI and Digital Media Aesthetics, Seminar

    Center for Digital Narrative, University of Bergen, Bergen
    April 2024
    "Building the Nethersphere: Artificial Intelligence and the Reanimation of Historical Minds"
    Presentation on Aesthetics of AI-driven Historical Figure Bots (Video)

  • Futures of Digital Narrative, Seminar

    Center for Digital Narrative, Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris (CUNP), Paris, France
    April 2024
    "Building the Nethersphere: Artificial Intelligence and the Reanimation of Historical Minds"
    Presentation of PhD Project

Exhibitions

New Realities
21 March 2025 - 11 January 2026
"Post-Human Couture" in
the New Realities Fashion Magazin
More Than Meets AI
20 September - 24 October 2024
Hedy Lamarr Chatbot

Museum Publications

Orte der Einheit book cover
Orte der Einheit
2023-2024
Dong Xuan Centre
Karlshorst Theatre
Museumsmagazin cover
Museumsmagazin
No. 1, 2020
#mauerfall30. Ein Hashtag für den Mauerfall, p. 18.
Das Radio in der Nussschale book cover
Das Radio in der Nussschale
Hirmer Verlag, 2017
‘Dem Paket auf der Spur’,
pp. 280–81.
‘Walkmania - Mobile Freiheit’,
pp. 256–59.
Das Buch der Nächte book cover
Das Buch der Nächte
Hermann Schmidt, 2017
‘Durch die Nacht mit Domian’,
pp. 20–23.
‘Kleider machen Leute’,
pp. 113–14.

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