In the Media
Coverage of Ardelia
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Oct 2026
Martha Sessums, “How AI Tech Helps Track French Art Looted in WWII” (subscription), Bonjour Paris, October 2, 2026.
Featured in the Bonjour Paris newsletter of October 8.
Talks
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Oct 2026
German Lost Art Foundation (Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste), Annual Conference, the principal gathering of provenance researchers in Europe, Magdeburg, October 6, 2026.
First public presentation of Ardelia, by Michael A. Santoro and Michele Samorani.
The research that led to Ardelia
Coverage of the Santa Clara University research project that preceded the company.
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Aug 2026
Chloe Veltman, “An AI chatbot is joining the search for art looted by the Nazis,” NPR, All Things Considered, August 9, 2026.
Also carried by NPR member stations nationwide. Video version posted by Santa Clara University.
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Aug 2026
Christian Thorsberg, “To Recover Artworks Looted by the Nazis, Researchers Are Getting Creative With New Strategies, Including an A.I. Chatbot and a Campaign of ‘Wanted’ Posters,” Smithsonian Magazine, August 3, 2026.
Quotes
We are applying AI tools to make it easier to make the kinds of connections that seasoned researchers would have to spend a long time having to do manually.
We have only scratched the surface of how AI can assist in provenance research.
The value of this is to ultimately find the rightful owners of looted art.