Image credit: Prof Drew Hemment at ARS Electronica 2023. Photograph by DiePhotoFrau
AI & Arts Lunchtime Talk
Experiential AI & The New Real Art Commission 2023
This seminar will explore the potential for artists and cultural organisations to develop AI-fuelled experiences fit for the next generation of globally connected audiences. It will present a vision for Experiential AI as a novel paradigm for fair and inclusive creative AI.
As conversational agents, virtual characters, interactive robots and other autonomous technologies increasingly become part of creative content, we have entered a new golden age for AI art. Yet major challenges come with these technologies, that can be blackboxed, inscrutable, energy intensive, and amplify harmful bias. Following the digital pivot after Covid, these are mainstream opportunities and concerns for the arts.
The New Real invites the AI community to join them in the challenge of developing creative tools that are accessible and legible.
This event will launch an open call for an Art Commission to work with an Experiential AI system and a dataset to explore the societal implications of AI and create a compelling new artistic work.
Speaker
Drew Hemment is The New Real’s project principal investigator. He is an artist, designer and academic researcher, Chancellors Fellow at Edinburgh Futures Institute and Edinburgh College of Art and Research Fellow at The Turing.
About the New Real
The New Real is a unique hub for AI, creativity and futures research. It is a partnership between the University of Edinburgh, The Alan Turing Institute and Edinburgh’s Festivals. Based within Edinburgh Futures Institute and Edinburgh College of Art. Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Creative Scotland.
What is The New Real? Learn more about it, have a peak at artworks and access our publications
About the Alan Turing AI&Arts Webinar Series
This event is part of the Alan Turing Institute AI&Arts Interest group Research Showcase Webinar Series. The aim of the series is to produce a panorama of the diverse research happening in the intersection of Data Science and arts disciplines.
Designed to fit around everyone's busy schedule, it is a 30 minute event with a short presentation and time for questions followed by asynchronous conversation in the AI&Arts group Slack space.
Their programme aims to feature at least one talk per month, on a Wenesday, 1pm, setting up a space for researchers, arts practitioners and organisations start conversations leading to future collaborations.