What Resurgam does and the difference we make.
Overview
Resurgam promotes cultural literacy. We do this by kickstarting the legacies of writers, artists and composers from antiquity through the mid-twentieth century. Our technology makes their life-work more accessible, meaningful and engaging for people today.
The mission includes:
- Curating aesthetic legacies of timeless intrinsic value
- Open-publishing them in accessible digital formats
- Animating them with AI-powered interactive simulation
- Building ethical AI-powered learning environments
- Minimizing technical, commercial and geographic barriers to use
Our Programs
Resurgam has four programs for which we accept tax-deductible donations.
Program 1: Digital Curation
Digital Curation (DC) locates, organizes, scans, transcribes, edits, annotates, illustrates, and preserves the meaningful and influential contents of aesthetic legacies. Legacies prioritized by Resurgam are literary, artistic and musical from antiquity to the twentieth century. DC is foundational to more technically advanced programs.
Program 2: Access to Cultural Heritage
Access to Cultural Heritage (ACH) publishes and otherwise disseminates the contents of curated legacies in machine-learnable and human-readable digital formats. ACH publishes in formats that are free and easy to use by the general public and compatible for the training of large language models. ACH mandates minimal technical, financial, and geographic barriers to access a curated legacy.
Program 3: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) engineers curated and published legacies to ensure they are open to computerized and human-prompted textual, visual and quantitative analysis. MLAI optimizes digital legacies for self-expression, self-assembly, self-correction, self-validation, date-stamping, cross-referencing, interpretation, elucidation, and correlation with the critical heritage. MLAI also synchronizes different digital legacies with overlapping content.
Program 4: High-Fidelity Simulation
High-Fidelity Simulation (HFS) enables curated, published, and engineered legacies to speak for themselves with autonomous self-awareness and self-expression. HFS manifests in interactive, lifelike conversations between aesthetic legacies and human interlocutors. HFS is achieved in digital modalities including chatbot, natural-language processing, speech synthesis, virtual reality, and computer-generated imagery (CGI).
Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld (1861), oil on canvas by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Wikimedia Commons). The Orpheus myth — reaching back to reclaim a soul — mirrors the mission of Resurgam to bring creative writers, artists, and composers back to our living world.
Why Resurgam Matters
Each legacy we refresh is more than a static archive. Resurgam is preparing for a future where people don’t only read about the past — they experience and probe it for personal meaning and enjoyment.
In our present era of declining literacy an scattershot attention, finding new ways to experience and probe works of genius may help society regain its cultural footing. Resurgam is in the vanguard of that movement.
💡 Imagine asking questions of a long-deceased novelist — and receiving thoughtful, informed responses shaped by their own life, fiction, and worldview.
Your Support Makes a Difference
Your donation can help Resurgam:
- Curate and publish rare and culturally significant works
- Build animated, interactive, AI-powered learning environments
- Ensure equitable, open access to all digital resources
- Support interdisciplinary teams of scholars, designers, and engineers
- Develop sustainable, ethical tools that humanize AI and deepen cultural connection and understanding
Please consider supporting our mission.
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Resurgam is a 501(c)(3) charitible organization dedicated to culural literacy. Donations in the United States are tax-deductible.
Resurgam is a 501(c)(3) charitible organization dedicated to culural literacy. Donations in the United States are tax-deductible.
Resurgam is a 501(c)(3) charitible organization dedicated to culural literacy. Donations in the United States are tax-deductible.
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