Lina (she/her) is a PhD Research Fellow engaged in the Extending Digital Narrative (XDN) Project at the Center for Digital Narrative, Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies. Her research explores the use of histobots (Harder, 2024) – chatbots that combine historical reenactment with generative AI – where users can interact with AI-generated versions of historical figures such as Anne Frank and Alexander the Great. 

Lina’s professional background includes digital content creation at a German museum focused on contemporary history and a two-year traineeship (German “Volontariat”) at a museum dedicated to the evolution of communication. She has contributed to diverse projects, including an online exploration of Berlin's Sites of Unity and the curation of exhibitions. With a M.A. in World Heritage Studies from BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and a B.A. in cultural studies with a historical focus, Lina has explored the challenges of Holocaust education in Poland and the use of audiovisual Holocaust survivor testimonies. Her interdisciplinary approach blends technology and history, aiming to create more dynamic and inclusive educational spaces through the innovative use of generative digital narratives.

Lina is a member of the 2025 working group for the Norwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Cultural Organizations (DHKO) and co-chair of STIP-HF, the interest committee for all PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Bergen.

Mai 2025 (upcoming)

Histobots: Rewriting History, One Chat at a Time
Presentation at the University:Future Festival /imagine, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung, Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre, Stifterverband, Online, 13-15 May 2025.

March 2025 

Haunted Algorithms: Techno-Necromancy and Ghosts in the Machine
Presentation at the Workshop Weird Stories & Wicked Communities, Center for Digital Narrative in cooperation with University of Stuttgart, Bergen, Norway, 13-14 March 2025. 

AI Meets History 
Online Workshop (Concept & Realisation) as part of the Art meets Tech: Web3Expressão series, Goethe Institute Lissbon, 11 March 2025.

December 2024 

Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-Generated Historical Figures on Informal Education
Paper presentation at the Workshop AI, Politics and Society Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy, 11-13 December 2024. 

November 2024

Reimagining History: AI-Generated Figures in Informal Education 
Guest Lecture at the AI Media Research Network, Department of Art and Media Studies, NTNU, Trondheim, 15 November 2024.

October 2024

Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-generated Historical Figures on Informal Education.
Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Norwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Culture Organization (DHKO), NTNU, Trondheim, 22 October 2024. 

Histobots. Echoes of History or AI Storytime?
Presentation at the AI and Narrative Seminar, Center for Digital Narrative (CDN), University of Bergen, Norway, 17 October 2024.

Hedy Lamarr Chatbot
Chatbot prototype using GPT-4o-mini as part of the exhibition More Than Meets AI, Center for Digital Narrative (CDN), University of Bergen, Norway, 1-25 October 2024.

September 2024

In Conversation with Hedy Lamarr. "Reanimating" Historical Figures with Artificial Intelligence.
Presentation at the Gode KI-historier seminar, Kommunikasjonsavdelingen, University of Bergen, Norway, 30 September 2024.

April 2024

Building the Nethersphere: Artificial Intelligence and the Reanimation of Historical Minds
Presentation at the Center for Digital Narrative Seminar on AI and Digital Media Aesthetics, 24 April, 2024. University of Bergen, Norway. Watch the talk on YouTube.

Building the Nethersphere: Artificial Intelligence and the Reanimation of Historical Minds.
Presentation at the Futures of Digital Narrative Seminar, Center for Digital Narrative (CDN), Centre Universitaire de Norvège à Paris (CUNP), Paris, April 2024.