Empowering the voices of artists in the generative AI era
Dive into future landscapes of creative AI and celebrate the vital role of artists in shaping AI practices and policies.
Image Credit: Photograph by Andrew Perry
Artists help us to navigate profound change surrounding new and emerging technology, including the most current developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Long before the current generative AI boom, a community of artists were changing the way we think of AI, combining powerful activism with inventive exploration. They devise alternative futures, and champion ethical and community-led approaches to generative AI. This is a vital source of collective sense making and distributed, bottom-up leadership.
In this event, The New Real’s Creative Agent, Caroline Sinders, convenes a group of practitioners who work on and with AI, to explore how to navigate these turbulent times.
Speakers
Eoghan O’Keeffe (Artist and AI toolmaker)
Irini Papadimitriou (Artistic Director, FutureEverything)
Caroline Sinders (Creative Agent, The New Real)
Gemma Milne (Editor, The New Real Editions)
Bev Hood (Creative Lead, BRAID)
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The launch of an exciting new online magazine format for critical and creative exploration of AI, that includes a reference guide for cultural organisations on working with AI. The New Real Editions’ editor, journalist, researcher and author, Gemma Milne, will introduce key insights from the first edition and frame the plans for the future ones.
The New Real champions the voice of artists in informing AI policy and development. Critical AI artists provide an essential reference point and source of inspiration, and yet these voices do not always reach policy makers, commercial developers, or scientists in the lab. At this critical moment in generative and creative AI, it is important to reflect on who and how is included and excluded from its development and how art can help establish new modes of inclusive and collective leadership in this field.
In The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, “To Speak For (The Trees)” means to both ensure diverse voices are heard and establish a care for the wider environment. At this critical moment in generative and creative AI, it is important to reflect on who and how is included and excluded from its development and how art can help establish new modes of inclusive and collective leadership in this field.
To speak for … requires to reflect and empathise, to challenge oneself to look at the world from other perspectives. True leadership is grounded in understanding and inclusion. At the Autumn 2023 Salon we will be exploring the empowerment through artistic and curatorial practices that show nuanced perspectives on the current generative AI boom.
Alongside the Salon, we will host an afternoon Navigating Generative AI in the Arts workshop to support artists, curators, technicians, festivals, venues, funders and audiences in the uptake of actionable insights and strategies for navigating generative AI. Places limited.
Important notice: This event will be photographed/recorded, and images may be used for future marketing, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed, please let us know at the event.