A day of artist-led discussions, performances & workshops that interrogate AI in creative practice.
Are you an artist curious or uneasy about integrating AI into your practice? Artists, Machines and the Space Between, is a part-lab, part-studio day dedicated to the exploration and interrogation of AI as a tool for new forms of creative expression. Come wade through the complexity of AI with us, revealing its creative potential and challenges. Through the lens of critical, hands-on experimentation, we will present the outcomes of two Art x AI creative research residencies, an artist-led workshop and pop-up interactive demos.
Program:
Xanthe Dobbie – The Future is Now, but where are the sex robots?
Opening performance lecture; a speculative utopian musing
Artist-in-residence Alisdair Macindoe x Dr Lea Frermann present Depth Perception
The work explores how automated linguistic meaning can be embodied and negotiated through improvised dance.
Artist-in-residence Mat Spisbah x Dr Jasmin Pfefferkorn present Hylozoic
The pair draws on social nostalgia and examines the shifting aesthetics of synthetic media and the emotional resonances surrounding human vs machine-generated content.
Lunch, Curator’s welcome and AI interactives at Science Gallery’s Distraction exhibition
Dance performance - Depth Perception
The participatory premiere of Macindoe and Frermann’s residency featuring twenty leading dancers and choreographers and a machine.
Artist-led workshop by Touch Collective (Minnie Park and Nick Marriott), Monica Lim and Mel Huang Buntine A MediaPipe workshop as a performative tool to add gesture control, hand tracking and object detection via a webcam. Workshop spaces are limited - please book a free ticket separately, and BYO laptop with TouchDesigner installed.
Decide for yourself whether it’s a creative friend, foe, or something in between. Step in, engage and experiment, and draw your own conclusions. Whether you're excited, skeptical, or just curious, this is a chance to engage with AI as both a tool and a concept—on your own terms.
