The second edition of Brighton’s XReactive tech meetup - a new cyclic event that provides a platform for art+tech professionals, creative coders, immersive creators, and everyone interested in xcreative technology. This time we will focus on the Ethical concerns of AI with presentations of academia-supported projects by Christopher Hogg, Chris Chowen and Brightblack. Additionally there will be AI Persona from Holycircuit studio to meet throughout the whole event.

Christopher Hoggs - Protecting your Creative Plums in the Age of Industrial Creativity

Christopher Hogg is a writer,  lecturer, and creative technologist whose work explores the intersection of story, performance, and emerging technology. He leads projects on interactive audio, AI and theatre, and teaches on creativity and Entrepreneurship at Royal Holloway, University of London. His current work investigates how AI is reshaping human creativity — and how we can respond with resilience, playfulness, and care

https://christopherhogg.substack.com/

Chris Chowen - Human-Centred AI

Chris Chowen is a PhD researcher in Human-Centred AI at Royal Holloway and Surrey, exploring how generative AI can ethically empower grassroots creatives through cooperative governance and open-source platforms. With over seven years supporting artists and technologists at Brighton's FuseBox innovation hub, Chris is passionate about bridging digital divides, making AI accessible, and championing creative diversity. He’ll share early insights from his research and showcase some of the most innovative open-source AI projects and tools shaping the creative landscape today.

https://chrischowen.com/

Brightblack - The ethics of electric dreaming AI

Join Simon Wilkinson and Myra Appena, co-directors of BrightBlack Productions, as they discuss their collaboration with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence on using AI to tackle key challenges in the creative industries.

They will also talk about their large scale immersive show, Those Who Hold Up the Sky, commissioned by Factory International earlier this year, which empowered 1000s of audience members to co-create a video game in real-time as a playable dialogue around gentrification and the future of our cities.

BRiGHTBLACK's VR artworks have featured at Tate Modern and toured to 36 nations in the past 15 years, scoring them a review from Cineuropa Magazine as 'one if the most notable names in Europe to be dealing with VR'.f

https://www.bright-black.org/

Holycircuit - interactive AI Persona

Interactive AI Persona from Holycircuit studio will be available to interact with through the whole night.
https://holycircuit.com