Welcome to The New Real
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.
The event will introduce delegates to the exciting latest developments that are pointing to a bright future for the cultural sector around the world. It will present methods and tools that you can adopt to drive collaboration between your arts and science sectors. You will discover how art and new technologies – including Artificial Intelligence (AI) – combine to fuel new cultural experiences, reach wider audiences, sustain new practitioners, and heal the Planet.
We will discuss the most radical and interesting signals for tomorrow in festivals today. We will share actionable insights on cultural development in The New Real, through policy recommendations and practical tools for the adoption of practices, technologies and infrastructures for a resilient and bright future for the arts and festivals. We will also globally launch our Open Prototyping Toolkit – a six-stage process to support collaborative co-design and interdisciplinary R&D.
Format
In person
Audience:
Public & Cultural Sector
Watch here:
https://www.culturesummit.com/summit-2022/
Panelists
Caroline Sinders is a machine-learning-design researcher and artist. For the past few years, she has been examining the intersections of technology’s impact in society, interface design, artificial intelligence, abuse, and politics in digital, conversational spaces.
Alex Fefegha spends most of his time leading a small team of designers and coders at COMUZI, a London based design studio creating future-positive products, services and experiences for governments, organisations and charities. In his spare time, Lex has been exploring AI & creativity projects, working with Google AI & Google & Arts Culture Lab to create The Hip Hop Poetry Bot, an AI research project, exploring speech generation trained on rap and hip hop lyrics by black artists.
About The New Real
The New Real programme at the University of Edinburgh explores the cutting-edge art and innovation shaping our world – we believe that together we can reach out and touch the future, and bring new ideas to life. We develop frameworks and tools for cultural organisations and technology institutions to collaborate, to place the arts at the forefront of new sustainable industries and economies, and illuminate how emerging technology can become a creative, playful and deeply impactful part of everyday living. We devise imaginative ways to experiment with new cultural experiences, practices, emerging technologies, and business models, to empower artists and communities to be agents of positive change.
About Edinburgh International Culture Summit
The sixth Edinburgh International Culture Summit takes place at the Scottish Parliament between Friday 26 – Sunday 28 August. Titled, Culture and a Sustainable Future, Summit 2022 will reflect on the urgent need for consideration of and investment in our future.
The Culture Summit believes that global problems require global solutions, and that effective responses to the most pressing challenges facing us today must be dynamic, multifaceted, and collaborative. Culture can play a vital role in helping people all over the world discover commonality, to conceptualise the critical issues we must face, and to help imagine and create a sustainable future.