Interactive Art and AI Archives
Swiss Echoes
AI-powered archive exploration across 200,000 hours of Swiss Television audiovisual heritage.
Challenge
RTS and EPFL needed a way to make 200,000 hours of archived Swiss television content explorable. The archive had to become intuitive, spatial, and meaningful without reducing it to a search box.
Solution
The installation used speech recognition, language models, and semantic vector search to identify meaningful moments and organise clips into thematic clusters. Visitors could touch locations on a map and access relevant historical footage.
Outcome
The installation demonstrated a new model for archive access and cultural heritage exploration. It created a repeatable approach for transforming large video archives into interactive spatial experiences.