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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. This is an opportunity to share best practices, explore the implications of new strategies, and understand how artists leverage creative AI. This hands-on session promises not only insights but also actionable strategies and tangible outputs on urgent issues of today that impact artists, curators, creatives and companies utilising AI.
Workshop Themes:
Cultural experiences fuelled by AI – what are the transformative cultural experiences for audiences? What makes works fuelled by AI interesting or inspiring? What do human artists bring to AI? How can AI art enrich culture rather than impoverish it? What makes a cultural experience 'intelligent'?
AI Tools – Looking beyond the text prompt, what do artists want to see from a new generation of tools? How can we give human artists greater agency in co-creation with AI? How do we support artists to work with AI models and data as material? What does successful co-creation with AI look like?
AI Commons – What are the fair and ethical approaches to attribution and compensation for creators, and to discovery and dissemination of art to audiences and art organisations? What are the viable alternatives to current extractive business models, how can we achieve them, and do they work at scale – such as common ownership, open access, monetisation through tokenisation, DAOs and various other approaches to attribution and compensation for creators?
Expert Presenters:
Eoghan O’Keeffe, internationally celebrated artist and AI toolmaker
Irini Papadimitriou, AI art curator and artistic director of FutureEverything
Drew Hemment, director of The New Real
Caroline Sinders, award winning critical designer, researcher and AI artist
Facilitators:
Matjaz Vidmar, deputy director of The New Real
Gemma Milne, editor of The New Real Editions
Plus provocations and strategies provided by leading industry figures such as Eva Jaeger (Creative AI Lab, Serpentine).
The workshop is presented by The New Real and Creative Scotland as a part of The New Real: Next Generation Intelligent Experiences, 2022-24.
The workshop will be followed by The New Real Salon featuring public keynote talks and the launch reception of The New Real Editions, 6pm-8pm, part of Edinburgh Futures Institute’s autumn event season. Moving beyond the workshop themes, we will explore there what co-creation between AI and artists will look like in the future and how we can enhance the voice of creative practitioners within the AI policymaking context.
Places limited – apply using link above.