Granada, December 15 (EFE).- The University of Granada has been “resurrected” by students of artificial intelligence and other emblematic figures of its history such as García Lorca or Manuel de Falla, who are part of the Christmas greetings with which the institution begins its quincentenary.
The University of Granada (UGR) proposal is a journey through time, a connection between past, present and future, using the possibilities of disruptive technology to celebrate the fact that Emperor Charles V signed its founding charter five centuries ago.
This happens with the magic of AI that has allowed García Lorca and Manuel de Falla to “resurrect”, but also with other characters who have made this university a reference, such as the poet Elena Martín Vivaldi or Eudoxia Píriz, the first woman to study medicine in Granada.
This jump between times has as its central theme a grandmother and a grandson, the past and the future, who travel through some rooms of the Royal Hospital, headquarters of the Rectorate of the UGR, in order to obtain magic.
The protagonists are five-year-old Javier and Rosario, a university student who plays his grandmother.
The University of Granada has used its Christmas greetings to begin commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of its founding, which will be celebrated in 2026, and has done so by restoring the past through achievements and AI.
This technology gives movement to the photographs that the boy sees holding his grandmother’s hand and allows him to see the old tram, decommissioned more than half a century ago, running next to the law school again, but also shows Falla in the library of the Royal Hospital at the premiere of the work with which he commemorated the death of Lope de Vega in 1935.
The Rector of the University of Granada, Pedro Mercado, presented this Monday the congratulations, a video shot by the Director of Communications of the UGR, Carlos Centeno, in collaboration with areas such as the Scientific Culture Department, the Library and its Archives, as well as with researchers in charge of animating the images using AI.
Mercado has emphasized that the congratulations include two of the most important things of the academic institution: Rosario and the continuous training for seniors and Javier, who represents the future.
The production involved extensive documentation and research to locate the historical images that are part of the content and later animated thanks to technology.
The protagonists of the video, which was in the works for several months, were little Javier Zurita, five years old, and Rosario Martínez, a senior student of the Permanent Open Training Classroom and member of the theater group of this institution, who could not be present today due to the damage. EFE
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