Since 2013, the international HyperHeritage International Symposium (HIS) network has developed an interdisciplinary reflection dedicated to the relationships between heritage, digital technologies, and societies. Previous editions of the symposium, held in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, have brought together researchers and practitioners from the humanities and social sciences, computer science, engineering, design, and the arts to address issues related to digital heritage, mediation, creation, and territorial memory.

The 10th edition of the conference, entitled “Vulnerable Heritage and Artificial Intelligence,” takes place in a context of multiple crises—environmental, social, economic, political, and technological—that are profoundly reshaping the regimes of heritage production, conservation, and transmission. It seeks to examine the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in these processes, with particular emphasis on contemporary forms of vulnerability, their multiple meanings, and their ethical, cultural, and epistemological implications.

AI appears both as a factor of fragility (technological dependency, algorithmic bias, system opacity, and data instability) and as a powerful tool for safeguarding, reconstruction, simulation, and heritage creation. This conference therefore aims to analyze these tensions, foster interdisciplinary dialogue, and bring together theoretical analyses, case studies, technical experiments, and artistic approaches.

The HIS.10 conference aims to:

• analyze new forms of heritage vulnerability in the age of artificial intelligence;
• examine the contributions, limitations, and risks of AI in processes of heritage preservation, conservation, and transmission;
• explore the emergence and recognition of new digital, algorithmic, or natively digital heritage;
• analyze hybrid forms between existing, reconstructed, augmented, and simulated heritage;
• foster interdisciplinary dialogue between the humanities and social sciences, engineering sciences, computer science, the arts, and creative practices.

Proposals may address one or more of the following thematic axes.

Axis 1 – Heritage Vulnerabilities in the Age of AI

This axis explores the multiple forms of vulnerability affecting tangible, intangible, natural, industrial, and digital heritage in a context of increasing reliance on AI. In particular, it seeks to examine: the instability and sustainability of heritage data;

• the obsolescence of formats, software, and technical infrastructures;
• algorithmic biases, modeling choices, and their effects on the representation of heritage;
• the fragility of digital media and automated conservation systems;
• the risks of disappearance, standardization, or decontextualization of knowledge, practices, and memories.

Contributions may adopt critical, historical, legal, social, or technical perspectives.

Axis 2 – Artificial Intelligence, Preservation, Conservation, and Transmission

This axis focuses on current and emerging uses of AI in the fields of conservation, restoration, documentation, and heritage mediation. It may address in particular:

• applications of computer vision, machine learning, and 3D technologies for heritage analysis, restoration, and monitoring;
• digital twins, predictive systems, and decision-support tools;
• augmented, immersive, or personalized mediation systems;
• methodological, ethical, and political issues related to the automation of heritage processes.

Particular attention may be given to the impact of these technologies on professional practices and audiences.

Axis 3 – Creation, Digital Cultures, and New Heritage

This axis examines how digital technologies and AI contribute to the emergence of new heritage objects and new forms of memory. It seeks in particular to analyze: heritage emerging from digital cultures, social media, and everyday archives;

• creations generated or co-produced by algorithmic systems;
• ordinary, vernacular, or marginalized memories and their patrimonialization;
• the links between artistic creation, technological experimentation, and heritage.

Contributions may combine aesthetic, cultural, sociological, and computational approaches.

Axis 4 – Hybridization, Simulated Heritage, and the Blurring of Truth

This axis examines hybrid forms produced by AI between real, reconstructed, augmented, and simulated heritage. It may address in particular:

• historical reconstructions, simulations, and virtual environments;
• phenomena of “fake heritage” or AI-generated heritage;
• the blurring of authenticity, fiction, memory, and simulation;
• epistemological, political, and ethical issues related to these practices.

This axis invites critical reflection on the notion of authenticity and on regimes of truth in heritage in the age of AI.

The official languages are French and English, for papers and presentations.

Proposals (400–600 words) must include:

• the title of the paper;
• the relevant thematic axis;
• the research question and theoretical framework;
• the fieldwork, corpus, or methodology employed;
• a short biographical note (approximately 5 lines).

Proposals should be sent to the following address: his@univ-paris8.fr

1. For all oral presentations delivered at the conference: publication in the conference proceedings in digital format in the form of a one-page abstract (title, affiliation, and abstract in both French and English).
2. After the conference, the Program and Scientific Committees will select the best full papers submitted, following peer review, for publication in a collective volume (both digital and print editions). Only the highest-rated papers deemed publishable without major substantive revisions will be retained. THIS PUBLICATION IS SUBJECT TO PRIOR PAYMENT OF THE REGISTRATION FEES. Additional papers may be selected for publication in one or two online journal issues associated with the conference and dedicated to heritage studies.

Registration is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper. The author agrees to pay the conference registration fee of €180; further details will be provided in due course.

The registration fee includes:

• participation in the conference;
• one copy of the conference proceedings (post-conference edition);
• coffee breaks and lunches.

• Nasreddine BOUHAI, CITU-Paragraphe, University Paris8, France
• Hafida BOULEKBACHE, DeVisu, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Khaldoun ZREIK, CITU-Paragraphe, University Paris8, France

• Hachimi ABBA, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Hafida BOULEKBACHE, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Dounia CHIBANE, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Mathieu DUBUIS, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Abdessalam HIJAB, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• AngelinaTOURSEL, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Philippe USEILLE, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France

• Hachimi ABBA, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Naoufel ABBES, TiiM, École Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies du Design de Tunis, Université de Manouba, Tunisie
• Julien ANGELINI, Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, France
• Ghislaine AZEMARD, Chaire UNESCO ITEN, Paris, France
• Roberto BARTHOLO, Université Fédérale de Rio de Janeiro, Brésil
• Vincent BECUE, Université de Mons, Belgique
• Riadh BEN ACHOUR, Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers de Tataouine, Tunisie
• Philippe BONFILS, Université de Toulon, France
• Nasreddine BOUHAI, CITU-Paragraphe, Université de Paris 8, France
• Hafida BOULEKBACHE, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Stéphane CARO, MICA, Université de Bordeau Montaigne, France
• Stéphane CHAUDIRON, Université de Lille 3 (France)
• Samuel GANTIER, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Tahar GHNAYA, Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers de Tataouine, Tunisie
• Ramzi HASSAN, School of Landscape Architecture at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
• Abdessalam HIJAB, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Marinos IOANNIDES, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
• Nadia KAAOUAS, Hassan II University - Casablanca, Maroc
• Ioannis KANELLOS, IMT Atlantique, Brest, France
• Smail KHAINNAR, Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Panagiotis KYRIAKOULAKOS, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Jean-Charles LAMIREL, Université de Strasbourg, France
• Patrizia LAUDATI, SicLab Méditerranée, EUR CREATES, Université Côte d’Azur, France
• Vanessa MARESCOT, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Michel MEIMARIS, University of Athenes, Greece
• François MELA, Université Paris 13, France
• Sylvie LELEU-MERVIEL, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Anna LEONE, Durham University, United Kingdom
• Khedidja OULEM, Université de Tebessa, Algérie
• Emilio PRADO, Université Autonome de Barcelone, Espagne
• Matthieu QUINIOU, CITU-Paragraphe, Université de Paris 8, France
• Daniel RAICHVARG, Université de Bourgogne, France
• Amjad RATROUT, Arab American University, Palestine
• Neila RHOUMA, TIMM, ESSTED, Université de Manouba, Tunisie
• Fabrice ROCHELANDET, Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
• Muath SABHA, Arab American University, Palestine
• Anis SEMLALI, American University of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE
• Marta SEVERO, Université Paris 10, France
• Pascal SIMEON, Université de Mons, Belgium
• Modestos STAVRAKIS, University of the Aegean, Greece
• Federico TAJARIOL, Université de Franche-Comté, France
• Angelina TOURSEL, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Mateo TRELEANI, Université de Lille, France
• Philippe USEILLE, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Fanny VERDIERE, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Marie-Michèle VENTURINI, Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, France
• Xenophon ZABULIS, Institut of Computer SCiences, Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
• Ikram ZEKRI, Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers de Tataouine, Tunisie
• Khaldoun ZREIK, CITU-Paragraphe, Université de Paris 8, France (HIS conferences general chair)

Conference Venue:

Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France, France

Scientific Organization: hisuniv-paris8.fr

Local Logistics Organization: jocelyne.groliere@uphf.fr