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The New Real Salon Showcase
Join The New Real, a project out of the Edinburgh Future’s Institute, for a showcase of our work the weekend of October 28th - 30th. 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 ourself. The weekend showcase is an opportunity for participants to continue the exploration from our Friday Salon, and get hands-on with the artworks themselves.
The New Real Showcase 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.
This Showcase comprises The New Real Observatory Platform, co-created by a team of scientists, artists, engineers and designers; and new horizons for creative machine learning tools and next generation intelligent experiences.
The New Real Observatory platform is combining machine learning processing engines with localised global climate data models.
Powered by its conceptual architecture, three artworks have been developed by Inés Cámara Leret, Adam Harvey, and Kizziah McNeill, which investigate the entanglements of people, data, machines and environments.
The works are accompanied by interactive exhibits which engage audiences with research on future applications of AI in the creative sector as well as the border societal questions and implications of the future of emerging technologies.
Come along to be delighted and inspired by transformative ideas and creative insights into the intersection of art and AI.
Please note that the exhibition will be accompanied by opportunities to contribute to the research. We will ask you for your consent prior to any contributions you make being used as part of the research. Please speak to our research team should you have any questions
Free event
Audience General public, cultural and science and technology sectors
Format In person
Tickets No Ticket required
When Open Daily
29th October 2022 11.00 - 16.00
30th October 2022 11.00 - 16.00
Artists
Inés Cámara Leret (b.1990, Madrid) lives and works in London and Madrid. Cámara Leret is inspired by the transformative nature of materials, the methodologies used to understand these and the relations that arise. Exploring life through that which is unseen, portrayed as static or seemingly ephemeral, Cámara Leret works across disciplines. In doing so, Cámara Leret nurtures long-term collaborations that create expanded networks and bridge traditional and academic ways of knowing.
Adam Harvey (US/DE) is a researcher and artist based in Berlin focused on computer vision, privacy, and surveillance technologies. He received his masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University (2010) and a BA in Integrative Arts from Pennsylvania State University (2004). His previous work includes CV Dazzle (camouflage from face recognition), the Anti-Drone Burqa (camouflage from thermal cameras), SkyLift (geolocation spoofing device), and Exposing.ai (interrogating face recognition datasets)
Keziah MacNeill is a Scottish artist and recent graduate from Edinburgh College of Art. Hosted by a photographic practice, her thoughts place themselves in a digital age where the remix, a regeneration of information, becomes default and acts of customisation become rewarding. She creates circuits of personalisation within the photographic process, employing structural and sonic adjustments to fabricate new darkroom personas. She Travels through the infinite rhythm of regeneration; occasionally slowed down by the pot holes of indecision, and habitual detachment.
Artworks
Our Programme Partners
Related event: The New Real Salon Opening
28th October 19.00-21.00
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.
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
Scottish AI Alliance
Scotland’s AI Strategy was launched in March 2021 with a vision for Scotland to become a leader in the development and use of trustworthy, ethical and inclusive AI. The Scottish AI Alliance is the body tasked with delivering this vision and the actions outlined in the strategy. It is a partnership between The Data Lab and the Scottish Government. Full information can be found at the Alliance’s website: scottishai.com
DataFest
DataFest showcases Scotland’s leading role in data science and artificial intelligence on the international stage, while offering an unparalleled networking platform for local and international talent, industry, academia and data enthusiasts. It is run by The Data Lab – Scotland’s innovation centre for data and artificial intelligence, hosted by the University of Edinburgh.