Arcaiax Living Memory

From scattered sources to living knowledge people can explore through conversation.

Arcaiax brings together archives, artworks, places and cultural knowledge into deep, source-grounded knowledge bases — brought to life through character-led, interactive experiences.

One body of knowledge. Many characters, perspectives and experiences.

Founder: Liselotte Engstam / Novisali — Stockholm, Sweden

The Opportunity

A photograph in one archive. Historical records somewhere else. Research in published sources. An artwork on a wall. Stories held across documents, collections and people’s knowledge. Individually, they hold fragments. Together, they can reveal a much richer story — but one that is often difficult to discover and navigate.

Arcaiax Living Memory creates a trusted knowledge foundation from which people can explore, question and discover through conversation.

Unlike a general AI conversation, each Arcaiax experience is bounded by a curated body of knowledge, grounded in identified sources and designed around a particular collection, place, story or audience.

Instead of following a predetermined path, people can ask their own questions, follow their curiosity, move between perspectives and discover connections they might otherwise miss.

Arcaiax distinguishes between documented knowledge, interpretation and imagined storytelling — making it possible to create engaging experiences while respecting the integrity of the underlying material.

Curiosity first. Friction low. Sources respected.

From Prototype to Platform

The current experiences are starting points. The ambition is to develop Arcaiax Living Memory into a reusable platform through which organisations can transform their own distributed knowledge, collections and stories into source-grounded conversational experiences — across exhibitions, archives, places and digital environments.

One knowledge base can support many characters, perspectives, languages, audiences and experiences.

Experience it now

Arcaiax Living Memory is already being tested with real visitors through two very different art experiences. Both are deliberately simple to enter: no account, nothing to install. Scan, ask, explore.

Nordic Folklore — The Twilight Realm of the Hidden Folk

An outdoor installation inspired by the vättar of Nordic folklore. Visitors can converse with Runa, Glimma and Lummer, exploring folklore, nature, memory and the imagined world of the installation.

Here, Arcaiax brings together cultural heritage, place, art and imagination — while keeping source-grounded material distinct from artistic invention.

Experience Vättarnas Skymningsland →

Space & Cosmos — Cosmic Wanderings

An art exhibition exploring our fascination with the universe, the unknown and our place within it. Visitors can converse with Captain Fågelsång, Galileo and Celeste, moving between astronomical knowledge, the history of our understanding of the universe, and more imaginative perspectives on the cosmos.

Here, Arcaiax brings together art, science, history and imagination, allowing curiosity to shape the experience.

Experience Cosmic Wanderings →

Testing and learning

These are live prototypes being tested with real visitors. I am learning how people enter the experience, what they ask, what sparks curiosity, what encourages deeper exploration, where they stop — and what is needed to make the model transferable to other collections and contexts.

The broader question is: Can conversation enrich how we experience art, knowledge, stories and cultural memory — creating deeper engagement and new ways to explore and connect?

Arcaiax Living Memory is evolving one experience, one visitor and one conversation at a time.

Why me

I come to Arcaiax Living Memory from two directions.

As a digital leader and board professional, with experience across business, museums, arts and cultural organisations, I have seen how valuable knowledge can be available yet remain difficult to discover and explore.

As multimedia artist Novisali, I create exhibitions and digital experiences myself. This gives me a real-world laboratory in which I can build, test and learn with my own material and actual visitors before asking other organisations to adopt the approach.

This gives me a real-world laboratory in which I can build, test and learn with my own material and actual visitors before applying the approach to other organisations and collections

Even the most sophisticated experience has little value if nobody gets past the first tap.

Who is Arcaiax Living Memory for?

Arcaiax Living Memory is designed for museums, archives, heritage organisations, cities, destinations, communities, artists and cultural organisations that hold valuable material and stories but want more people to discover and engage with them.

The material may already be digitised, exhibited or publicly available. The opportunity is to connect what is distributed and turn access into exploration.

What could you bring to life?