Artificial Futures

Artificial Futures

Artificial Futures is about art and AI in relation to how we work, our relationship with alterable histories and realities, and the ethics

By Paul Mellon Centre

Date and time

Friday, July 4 · 2 - 7:30pm GMT+1

Location

Paul Mellon Centre and online

16 Bedford Square London WC1B 3JA United Kingdom

Agenda

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Generative: Practising Collective Criticism, a writing workshop by Nora Khan

*Tickets for this event must be booked separately. Maximum 20 people.*   How do we speak, write, and think about art, especially AI generated art that we might not have the full background story of? ...

2:00 PM - 2:05 PM

Welcome and Introduction 

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

The Minor Feelings of AI (A Satire), Maya Indira Ganesh, Cambridge University

Asian American writer, Cathy Park Hong, names a class of psychic and affective states as “minor feelings” which accompany the experience of racialisation. Minor feelings are neither cathartic nor do ...

2:50 PM - 3:05 PM

Q&As

3:05 PM - 3:20 PM

Comfort break

3:20 PM - 4:05 PM

Sam Lavigne (Artist and Educator), title TBC

4:05 PM - 4:20 PM

Q&As

4:20 PM - 4:50 PM

Comfort break and refreshments

4:50 PM - 5:35 PM

Towards Anti-Capitalist AI Art and Post-Abundance Computational Practices

Speaker: Wesley Goatley, Respondent: Pedro Oliveira

In this session, critical digital artist and researcher Wesley Goatley will talk about the emerging intersections of AI, technocapitalism and the climate collapse, and how art can respond to these on...

5:35 PM - 5:50 PM

Q&As

5:50 PM - 6:25 PM

The Post-Truth Museum: Nora Al Badri in conversation with Maya Indira Ganesh  

In this work Nora employs various AI techniques to place unlikely words in the mouths of three European museum directors as well as reanimating ancient-inspired masks. Her deepfakes represent museums...

6:25 PM - 6:40 PM

Q&As

6:40 PM - 7:30 PM

Drinks reception

About this event

  • Event lasts 5 hours 30 minutes

What is Research Now? presents a full year of programming around interconnected strands that ask us to think more curiously, critically and open-endedly about the role and practice of the arts.

The theme is led by the question: Can research in the arts enable us to live and better inhabit the world together? It will bring artists, curators, writers, scholars, and thinkers from a range of different backgrounds to think together through lectures, performances, conversations, and hands-on workshops at the Paul Mellon Centre in London.

Biographies for our speakers can be found here.

From 10am-5pm drop in to PMC visit (2-4 July):

  • The Horizon, installation by Wesley Goatley
  • What is Research Now? Reading Room: A space to sit, read, reflect, talk

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Paul Mellon Centre

The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art is an educational charity committed to promoting original, world-class research into the history of British art and architecture of all periods. We collaborate closely with the Yale Center for British Art, and are part of Yale University

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