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Sculpture at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, Israel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

At\u00a0The American Conservative<\/em> today, I\u2019m discussing a new method of recording oral histories<\/a> that would let museum curators tweak the words and even the facial expressions of the interviewee long after they have died. \u00a0For now, the goal is to make oral histories responsive and interactive\u2013giving viewers the chance to ask the hologram questions and have a computer pick the right clip on the fly, so it feels like a conversation. \u00a0The pilot test is being done with Pinchas Gutter, a Holocaust survivor.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a virtue in the distance that visible signs of age and moments of cultural incomprehension force upon us. A student who feels the frustration of not being able to ask Gutter a follow-up question is reminded that he is lost. Another visitor, who has to painstakingly rephrase a question, until it\u2019s in a form the real Gutter would have understood must imagine herself in his position instead of finding him pre-adjusted to suit her own.<\/p>\n

The false fluency afforded by the hologram doesn\u2019t just distort Gutter\u2019s own story, but the art of history itself. Historians are translators, and just like\u00a0the translators of novels<\/a>, they are aware that their reconstructive work is often slightly speculative or relies on a least-bad approximation of whatever actually happened. A translation that appears completely seamless makes us forget that we\u2019re hearing about history secondhand.<\/p>\n

Read the rest at\u00a0<\/em>The American Conservative\u2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At\u00a0The American Conservative today, I\u2019m discussing a new method of recording oral histories that would let museum curators tweak the words and even the facial expressions of the interviewee long after they have died. \u00a0For now, the goal is to make oral histories responsive and interactive\u2013giving viewers the chance to ask the hologram questions and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":9423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-9422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-other-writing"],"yoast_head":"\nKeeping the Past a Foreign Country<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At\u00a0The American Conservative today, I'm discussing a new method of recording oral histories that would let museum curators tweak the words and even the\" 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