Join us on Thursday, April 24 for an evening of conversation around Art & AI, inspired by the recent exhibition of works by Botto, "a decentralized autonomous artist" designed to create crowd-sourced, generative works of art.

Our evening will follow a simple structure: Nathan Bayliss (from last year's Navigating the Not Yet) will start us off with a short introduction that looks at Botto & other AI-generated work and poses the question "But Is It Art?". We'll then turn the conversation over to the room for more questions, comments and general discussion. From there, we'll let the evening take us where it will.

This is a free event but to keep the conversation lively & focused we're keeping it small and limiting the number of spaces so booking a spot is essential.

Our aim is to generate an interesting conversation and hear what others think about this new world of art-making that, for good or bad, is opening up around us.

To help get you in the mood, the following links will take you to essays, videos and artwork that may (or may not) figure into the evening's discussion. Take a look at all, some, or none of them and then book a spot to join us. It'll be fun!

Verse.work - Botto's work & the eye-watering sums it's selling for.

Verse.work - What's really going on behind the scenes.

Itsnicethat.com - Ann Ridler discusses her work.

Jake Elwes - Two AI's in conversation.

Peel Slowly and See - The banana on the wall.

Moma.org - Joseph Kosuth's chairs.

Moma.org - Yoko Ono's instructions for paintings.

Newsocialist.org - AI aesthetics and fascism.

Honest-broker.com - AI Art and the Aesthestics of Slop.

Alignment Faking - A lengthy but interesting panel discussion on AI learning to lie.

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Yeah, But Is It Art?