The Kansas City Museum has announced that it will feature a conversational AI video project with great-grandmother, businesswoman and Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski, lovingly known as “Big Sonia.”
A behind-the-scenes video of the making of this project is available at vimeo.com/581924926. This AI project with Warshawski is similar to other “Dimensions In Testimony” projects at the USC Shoah Foundation.
Working in collaboration with Leah Warshawski, Impact producer and director of Inflatable Film and granddaughter of Sonia Warshawski, the museum will launch this AI media experience in 2025. It will be located in Corinthian Hall’s third-floor gallery called “Our City, Our Stories.”
The Kansas City Museum will be the first museum in the United States to feature this AI media experience and advance the impact of it by creating educational materials using a restorative practices methodology.
The Museum is actively fundraising for the project and has received a lead contribution from the Barton P. Cohen and Mary Davidson Cohen Charitable Trust housed at Midwest Trust Company.
Those interested in making a contribution can contact Paul Gutiérrez, deputy director, visitor experience and public engagement, at . More information is available at kansascitymuseum.org/sonia-warshawski/.
