Lina er doktorgradsstipendiat i Extending Digital Narrative-prosjektet (XDN) ved Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studier. Forskinga hennar ser på bruken av KI-chatrobotar som historisk levandegjering av figurar som Vincent van Gogh og Marie Curie, som gir liv til historia på ein ny og interaktiv måte.

Lina sin yrkesbakgrunn inkluderar digital innhaldsskaping for eit tysk museum fokusert på samtidshistorie, og ein toårig praksisplass (tysk «Voluntariat») ved eit museum for kommunikasjonens utvikling. Ho har bidrege til ei rekke prosjekt, inkludert ei online-utforsking av Berlin sine Sites of Unity og utstillingskuratering. Med ein mastergrad i verdsarvstudier frå BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg og ein bachelor i kulturstudier med historiefokus, har Lina dykka inn i utfordringar knytt til Holocaust-undervisning i Polen og bruken av audiovisuelle vitnesbyrd frå Holocaust-overlevande. Hennar tverrfaglege tilnærming blandar teknologi og historie, med mål om å skape dynamiske og inklusive lærestader gjennom innovativ bruk av generative digitale forteljingar.

Lina er medlem av Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), medlem av arbeidsgruppen 2025 og 2026 for Norsk nettverk for digital humaniora og kulturorganisasjon og tidligere medformann og nåværende medlem av STIP-HF, Ph.d.-kandidatutvalget ved Det humanistiske fakultet, Universitetet i Bergen.

June 2026

Remixing the Past. Encounters with AI-Generated Historical Portraits
Presentation in the Panel Narrative and AI Intimacy
The 41st Narrative Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative
Aarhus University, Denmark, 4 June 2026.

April 2026

Wherever I go, you're always with me 
Generative video loop as part of Kunnskapsfest på UiB
Universitetsmuseet i Bergen, 12 April 2026.

March 2026

Unreal Ancestors – Reimagining History Through AI
Presentation at the DH Lecture Series
Organised by Digital Lab University of Bergen Library, D-lab at NTNU and the Norwegian Network for Digital Humanities and Cultural Organization (DHKO)
Online, 23 March 2026. 

Research as a Creative Practice
Panel Discussion at the CDN Equinox, Center for Digital Narrative's biannual research day
University of Bergen, Norway, 20 March 2026.

December 2025

(A)I Can't See Them
Paper Presentation and Panel Discussion at GenAI and Creative Practices
Organised by Responsible Digital Transformations, the event brings together researchers and practitioners to critically examine the evolving relationship between Generative AI (GenAI) and creative work.
University of Amsterdam and OBA Theatre, 17-18 December.

October 2025

(A)I Can't See Her
Paper Presentation and Panel Discussion at AoIR 2025 Ruptures
26th Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers, Panel Archeologies & Histories of Digital Artifacts
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil, 18 October 2025.

Wherever I go, you're always with me & 404. Realness Not Found
Generative video loop & speculative film poster as part of the exhibition An Eye for AI Cinema
Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) in cooperation with Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF)
USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway, 15-23 October 2025.

Persona Non Data
Session Presentation and Panel Discussion at Research Ethics Day "Research Ethics After AI"
Session 3: Building Ethical Literacy: Towards a New Era of Research Ethics.   
University of Bergen, Norway, 3 October 2025.

June 2025

Histobots in Conversation: Ontologies and Typologies
Research Presentation at Lake Forest College, Illinois, USA, 26 June 2025. 

Mai 2025 

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.
Watch the talk on YouTube.

March 2025 

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

AI Meets History 
Online Workshop (Concept & Realisation) as part of the Art meets Tech: Web3Expressão series
Goethe Institute Lisbon, Online, 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
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU), Trondheim, 15 November 2024.

October 2024

Echoes of History? The Impact of AI-generated Historical Figures on Informal Education.
Presentation at the DHKO Annual Conference "Digital and digitized traces"
Norwegian network for digital humanities and cultural organization (DHKO)
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (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's Seminar on AI and Digital Media Aesthetics
University of Bergen, Norway, 24 April, 2024. 
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. 

April 2024

The Dream of the Talking Machine: From Automata to Generative AI
Guest lecture in DIKULT104: Digital Technology and Society, undergraduate course in Digital Culture, Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.

Harder, Lina Ruth. 2026. “Chatbot.” In The Living Glossary of Digital Narrative, May 27. https://glossary.cdn.uib.no/terms/chatbot/.

Harder, Lina Ruth. 2026. “Histobot.” In The Living Glossary of Digital Narrative, May 22. https://glossary.cdn.uib.no/terms/histobot/.

Harder, Lina Ruth, David Jhave Johnston, Scott Rettberg, Sérgio Galvão Roxo, and Haoyuan Tang. 2026. “Extending Digital Narrative with AI, Games, Chatbots, and XR: How Experimental Creative Practice Yields Research Insights.” Humanities 15 (1): 17. doi:10.3390/h15010017.

Harder, Lina Ruth. 2026. ‘(A)I CAN’T SEE HER’. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, ahead of print, February 1. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.15168.

Museum Publications

Harder, Lina. 2024. “Dong Xuan Centre” and “Karlshorst Theatre.” In Sites of Unity. Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. https://www.orte-der-einheit.de/en/.

Harder, Lina. 2020. “#mauerfall30. Ein Hashtag für den Mauerfall.” Museumsmagazin, no. 1: 18. hdg.de/museumsmagazin_1-2020.pdf.

Harder, Lina. 2017. “Kleider machen Leute.” In Das Radio in der Nussschale und andere Objektgeschichten: Aus den Sammlungen der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, edited by Veit Didczuneit, 113–14. Bd. 38. Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation.

Harder, Lina. 2017. “Walkmania – Mobile Freiheit.” In Das Radio in der Nussschale und andere Objektgeschichten: Aus den Sammlungen der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, edited by Veit Didczuneit, 256–59. Bd. 38. Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation.

Harder, Lina. 2017. “Dem Paket auf der Spur.” In Das Radio in der Nussschale und andere Objektgeschichten: Aus den Sammlungen der Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, edited by Veit Didczuneit, 280–81. Bd. 38. Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation.

Harder, Lina. 2017. “Durch die Nacht mit Domian.” In Das Buch der Nächte, edited by Klaus Beyrer, 20–23. Verlag Hermann Schmidt.