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Are you curious about how artists are really using AI? Are you thinking about what it means for your own practice, your audiences, or the industries you work in?

AI is reshaping what it means to make art. It’s changing how images are produced, how stories are told and how we decide what to trust. For artists working at the intersection of creativity and technology, these aren’t abstract questions, they’re the conditions in which they’re making work right now and navigating the tension between innovation, ethics and limited resources.

We hear from four creatives who are working with and sometimes against AI to make ambitious, boundary pushing work. They’ll share what’s driving their decisions, what they’ve learned, and what they think every creative needs to understand about the world we’re now making in.

Whether you’re an artist, producer, technologist or simply curious about the future of creativity, this webinar offers an opportunity to hear from creatives working at the cutting edge of AI and the arts.

We cover:

• How AI is changing our relationship with truth, identity and visual culture and what that means for audiences and makers alike.
• Why media literacy matters more than ever and what role artists can play in shaping it.
• How AI tools are being used to solve real production challenges, from ambisonic audio to world-building at speed.
• The tension between creative ambition and limited budgets and how artists navigate it without compromising their vision.

Speakers:

Alan Warburton

Alan Warburton is an applied media theorist and artist working with CGI, AI, XR, VR and Machine Learning between art, industry and academia. An advocate of digital literacy and the creative industries, his critical video essays discuss software, labour, gender and visual epistemology and are fixtures in university curriculums worldwide.

Shehani Fernando

Shehani is an award-winning immersive producer & director based in London, passionate about innovative forms of storytelling that combine documentary practice with new technologies. She recently founded immersive studio Indigo Storm which produces XR experiences. She specializes in cutting-edge documentary and arts storytelling. Her work has been showcased at major international festivals, including IDFA, SXSW, and the Venice Film Festival.

An-Ting and Ian Gallagher, Lost Communications

An-Ting 安婷 is a versatile artist who thrives in piano, electronic compositions, and various other forms of artistic expression. Drawing from her life experiences, she weaves diverse encounters into her creations, blending music with other art forms to delve into the depths of the human experience.

Ian Gallagher is a theoretical physicist and Developer who has created high-profile apps for Christie’s, Formula One and the Olympics. He has a keen interest in the exploration of consciousness and the emergence of collective thought and behaviour. More recently he has had great success in bringing digital technology to live performance, online and in the Barbican and he has become a core contributor to the generative AI open source arts community.

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We highly recommend that you watch all of the artists’ work before attending the webinar as they will provide context for the discussion.

Image Empire – Alan Warburton

An animated fairytale (with an accompanying Field Guide) about the fusion of the real and the virtual within contemporary AI models. Based on doctoral research undertaken at Birkbeck’s Vasari Centre for Art & Technology and designed for release on LinkedIn it was commissioned by the National Videogame Museum in collaboration with the Open Data Institute and Cambridge University’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

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Vocalize – Indigo Storm

An interactive installation, with Sir Stephen Fry, that confronts the future of AI, identity, and truth. Through the power of immersive storytelling, audiences get to train as a Voice Over artist inside a playful yet unsettling experience that reveals just how easily artificial intelligence can manipulate you. Your voice is your identity, so what happens when it’s no longer under your control? Directed by Shehani Fernando, Halsey Burgund and Francesca Panetta.

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Lost Communications: Underwater – An-Ting and Ian Gallagher

A new live performance from creative duo An-Ting and Ian Gallagher that explores the acoustic world of marine life. Using a 360-degree hydrophone set, immersive compositions, Unreal Engine, and with recorded sounds from coral reefs, fish, whales and other underwater creatures, this experience integrates them into original 3D AI compositions and visuals. The result is a unique underwater soundscape brought to life through a multi-sensory hybrid online and in-person performance, engaging the audience to an immersive world of different dimensions.

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