Citations — Ground Rules — Historical Virtual Humans

IDs in parentheses (S…, web:…) match the research bibliographies in this vault. Use those notes for the full annotated list.

Rule 1 — Say what it is

Jumbo Mana / Christophe Renaudineau: “We are able to bring these characters to life, but we are not trying to rebirth them.” Interviewed in coverage of Bonjour Vincent at Musée d’Orsay. [web:247] [web:248] [web:251]
Musée d’Orsay official page, Hello Vincent / Bonjour Vincent: visitor-facing description of the generative encounter as an addendum to a real exhibition, not a resurrection. [web:242] S242
Agnès Abastado (Orsay digital): internal year-long debate on “at what point this van Gogh was the real van Gogh.” [web:248]
Glenn Beck / The Torch, “What George AI Is and Is Not”: “librarian,” not a resurrection; closed corpus. Useful as a claim to test against Rule 1, not as a model of labeling. S105

Dr Wouter van der Veen on feeding Van Gogh’s correspondence so the system does not “spit back a Wikipedia page.” France Culture / Orsay reporting. [web:243]
Musée d’Orsay: corpus of “some 900 letters.” [web:242]
Forbes (Leslie Katz, 14 Dec 2023): “more than 800 letters.” S134
Speaking with the Past: Joseph Lister RAG character — method paper on accuracy, authenticity, reliability of an LLM historical figure. Heritage 8(9), 2025. S120
The Torch / George AI “electric fence” metaphor and isolated-server claim. S107 S111

USC Shoah Foundation, Dimensions in Testimony project page. S172 [web:231]
Wikipedia, Dimensions in Testimony: five-day shoot; same clothes; rest pose; footage not animated, edited, or manipulated so it remains a primary source. S175 [web:233]
Traum et al., “New Dimensions in Testimony.” S178
StoryFile / Conversa: retrieval-based matching of pre-recorded clips; not generative paraphrase. [web:236] [web:237]
Heather Maio-Smith on talking to the individual, not an avatar. [web:239]
Tablet Magazine feature on DiT method, cost, and Eva pairing. S173

Colorado Humanities, Chautauqua Living History: monologue in character → questions in character → scholar steps out of character. [web:272]
History Comes Alive / Greenville Chautauqua: same three-beat clock. [web:274]
Ohio Chautauqua / Kentucky Chautauqua program descriptions. [web:273] [web:275]
Voices From the Earth Chautauqua learning outcomes. [web:280]

Historic Metahumans poster (Hata et al., ASOR): multi-figure pipeline; family permission for Biran. S121
Digital Einstein, ETH Zurich / Animatico: authored dialogue tree later mixed with generative models — a warning case for unlabeled anachronism. S142 S145
ENGAGE XR School of AI Historical Figures: many characters, thin documentary spine per figure. S116

(A)I Cannot See Them, Open Library of Humanities: coins “histobot”; failed Hedy Lamarr prototype; cites Bonjour Vincent and Ask Dalí. S117
Smithsonian / ADC Awards on Dalí Lives: actor body, curator-checked lines, deepfake face — scripted, not open generation. S182 S186
NHA, “The Real Women of Petticoat Row”: correction of a flattening myth. [web:302] S291
Absalom Boston / New Guinea / African Meeting House — NHA “Notable Black Nantucketers.” [web:292]

Orsay / international press: most-asked Bonjour Vincent question was why Van Gogh killed himself; hundreds of visitors; human steering toward resilience; remaining ML errors. [web:247] [web:250] [web:251]
Fatma Chelly / Michaël Friess: “AI can say incorrect things. The human is there to provision the data.” [web:245]
Leeds Castle Eleanor of Castile: face not AI-generated; curatorial journey before conversation; multilingual. S126

U.S. post-mortem right of publicity survey (CA 70 yrs, NY 40, IN 100, TN potentially perpetual if exploited). [web:252] [web:254] [web:258]
New York digital-replica statute: exemptions for parody, commentary, documentary, historical or biographical works. [web:254]
Hebrew University v. GM commentary on Einstein likeness vs. photograph copyright. [web:257]
Aquinnah Cultural Center / Mashpee Wampanoag: living nations; Nantucket has no surviving Wampanoag community. [web:333] [web:336]
Frances Karttunen / NHA, The Other Islanders: Abram Quary, Dorcas Honorable, and the “last Indian” framing as an archive problem. [web:336]
Historic Metahumans: family permission for Biran. S121

Phebe Mitchell Kendall, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals (1896); Henry Albers ed. (2001). [web:313] [web:319]
Wouter van der Veen credited as Van Gogh specialist on Hello Vincent. [web:242]
Spirits Within Us (2026) credits: Boardman, Finger, Tyler, White, Philbrick, NHA manuscripts, Theater Workshop of Nantucket. [web:290]

Musée d’Orsay placement of Vincent at the exit of the painting exhibition. [web:242]
Lincoln Presidential Library: AR Lincoln + prior Ghosts of the Library Holavision. S210 S212
Hello History / Humy.ai classroom traction (downloads, teachers) — different product, same room problem. S191
MetaHuman 5.6–5.8 platform notes for kiosk / mobile LOD. [web:262] [web:266]

Jumbo Mana afterlife: Orsay → Auvers → announced Alexa skill; Rimbaud and Schweitzer follow-ons. [web:223] [web:247]
StoryFile consumer vs enterprise capture grades. [web:232] [web:237]
Soul Machines receivership (Feb 2026) as a caution on unit economics and who inherits a digital human. See Citations — Digital Humans

BASE Hologram / Maria Callas tour: reconstructed performance, mixed reviews, estate/likeness spectacle. S202 S203 S206
Hello History library of 1,000+ figures: demand without documentary spine. S124 S191
George AI interview coverage as a warning on feeding “today’s conditions” back into a closed founding-era corpus. S106 S107