TikTok: Work, Time, and Play in a Platform Economy
TikTok: Work, Time, and Play in a Platform Economy brings together papers that analyse emerging digital visual culture(s) and aesthetics through critical platform analyses. We are particularly interested in TikTok, as it is a platform where many dynamic digital subcultures proliferate and circulate.
Building Near Futures Student Exhibition
Edinburgh Futures Institutes masters students taking the Building Near Futures course will be presenting their creative future prototypes which address particular challenges posed by the theme of Living with/in intelligent environments.
Come along to their Exhibition Event on Friday, 5th April 2024, at 3pm to be inspired by their insights of near-future scenarios and decide for yourself whether, and how, they could affect real-world change.
Hosted by: Prof Drew Hemment & Dr Matjaz Vidmar
The New Real at AI UK
Get ready for an exhilarating kickoff at AI UK 2024, where The New Real takes the stage to deliver the opening provocation! We're not just diving into the usual realms of optimization and cost savings – brace yourself for a journey into the extraordinary.
Our team is set to unravel transformative expressions and novel ways of existence, pushing the boundaries of what AI can achieve. This session isn't just about showcasing capabilities; it's a thrilling celebration of AI's potential, all done responsibly.
Immerse yourself in a spectacle of artwork depicting alternate futures, unconventional utopias, and surprisingly optimistic apocalypses. Whether you choose to be there in person or join us online, this is an experience you won't want to miss. Buckle up for a ride into the future with us!
The New Real Team, Drew Hemment and Matjaz Vidmar, will also be joining Turing Institute Skills and Training Manager, Mishka Nemes, and Turing Innovation Director, Simon Reeve to lead the Innovation Lab at AI UK. The Turing Innovation Lab workshop presents a brilliant opportunity to engage directly with current innovators to explore how to turn research ideas into novel scientific innovations. Whether it’s a commercial business idea rooted in deep tech, a start-up pitch for investors or a social innovation idea aimed to improve welfare and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
We’re also co-hosting the Driving Decarbonisation with AI workshop, with stakeholders from the manufacturing, marine, infrastructure and energy sectors.
With decarbonisation an urgent matter, this workshop will focus on Data-Centric Engineering to turn complex data into solutions that dramatically reduce carbon emissions and pave the way for a sustainable future.
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Protecting Creativity in the Age of AI
The New Real is participating in an event on supporting the creative industries in the age of AI.
Images, Artists and AI – evening event with The New Real
Join us in the V&A’s Photography Centre for an evening event about images, artists and AI. Delve deep into how images and image-making have been impacted by recent advances in machine learning, and hear from artists who have long engaged with the creative potential of AI.
The New Real Salon: “Voices of Artists in the Generative AI Era, We Speak for the...”
Dive into future landscapes of creative AI and celebrate the vital role of artists in shaping AI practices and policies.
Navigating Generative AI in the Creative Arts (Workshop)
Delve deep into insights and strategies surrounding AI in the arts and creative sectors. Discover the latest thinking on transformative experiences for audiences, new AI tools, and fair and ethical business models.
The New Real Salon: The Algorithmic Turn
Join us for the opening of the second New Real Salon, as we gather our community together across a weekend of events, to explore how the new generation of powerful AI tools is opening unprecedented opportunities for human-machine creativity.
It’s All About the Feelings: A Performance on AI and Emotion Recognition
Come and join us for a performance event that takes a peek inside AI and emotion recognition to explore the emotional, empathic, sentiment recognition systems that have significant implications for our current and near future lives.
Uncanny Machines Talks at the Scottish AI Summit
As part of the 2023 Scottish AI Summit The New Real announces inspirational AI Artists, awarded our five development awards, who have been funded to explore the uncanny interplay of humans and machines, and the social implications of recent developments in AI.
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. The New Real invites the AI community to join them in the challenge of developing creative tools that are accessible and legible.
The New Real Salon Showcase
Join The New Real, a project out of the Edinburgh Future’s Institute, as we present a programme of work, Exploring the future of AI and the arts, across the weekend of October 28th - 30th. The New Real Showcase, taking place on the 29th and 30th, presents a suite of artworks and interactive exhibits from The New Real making the Artificial Intelligence systems more legible, transparent, fair, and environmentally sound through arts and design. Come along to delve deeper into the ideas and concepts behind the work and to participate in the research.
The New Real Salon Opening
Join The New Real, a project out of the Edinburgh Future’s Institute, as we present a programme of work, Exploring the future of AI and the arts, across the weekend of October 28th - 30th. The weekend will kick off with the New Real Salon Opening event on Friday the 28th, where leading contemporary AI artists, designers and scientists will explore the most transformative technologies out there and announce a major new programme on Next Generation Intelligent Experiences. Experience our ground-breaking ideas around the arts and culture of tomorrow and how AI intersects with society to allow us to reflect back on ourselves.
Designing The New Real
The New Real invites you to join this Friday morning workshop session followed by networking lunch - As part of this workshop we will devise imaginative ways to research and experiment with new experiences, practices, infrastructures and business models, and to empower people to be agents of positive change. Immerse yourself into The New Real and experience exciting and groundbreaking ideas for the arts and culture of tomorrow and help us define the agenda for future research and teaching in this area.
The New Real AI Brunch @ ARS Electronica
We are delighted to be part of Ars Electronica 2022: Welcome to Planet B, where we will be inviting visitors to our A.I. Brunch: Here Be (Intelligent) Dragons, which will explore new horizons for creative AI in the arts. This dynamic workshop you will provide opportunities to collaborate with other expert practitioners on stimulating challenges. Join our growing interdisciplinary network of engaged minds.
The New Real Observatory: Exhibition @ ARS Electronica
We are delighted to be part of Ars Electronica 2022: Welcome to Planet B, where we will be presenting The New Real Observatory exhibition featuring artworks by Inés Cámara Leret, Adam Harvey, and Kizziah McNeill presenting multi-sensory explorations of possible futures and investigating the entanglements of people, data, machines and environments
Edinburgh International Culture Summit
We are delighted to be part of Edinburgh International Culture Summit 2022 where we will be presenting our exciting research Programme. At this year’s Edinburgh International Culture Summit, The New Real team will introduce policy makers and cultural professionals from participating nations to exciting new ways to combine art and technology in delightful and transformative digital cultural experiences for global audiences.
It's all about the feelings...
It’s all about the feelings…’ is a creative research project led by Beverley Hood, an artist and Reader in Technological Embodiment & Creative Practice at the University of Edinburgh, featuring actor, Pauline Goldsmith and PhD candidate in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies, Benedetta Catanzariti.
The Overlay Exhibition & Drop In Sessions @ Edinburgh Science Festival 2022
The Overlay by artist Inés Cámara Leret is an exploration into the entanglements that arise when attempting to make global climate data tangible
The new real @ scottish AI summit
We are delighted to be part of the inaugural Scottish AI Summit this year. The New Real team will showcase projects developed over the last year, and present a lunchtime demo of our new climate AI platform for artists.
The new real observatory @aiuk
We are delighted to be part of AI UK 2022 where we will be launching our exciting new project partnered with The Turing Institute, The New Real Observatory