Key details
Time
- 4pm – 6pm
Location
- Battersea
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Gorvy Lecture Theatre
Price
- Free
Who can attend
- Everyone
Type
- Lecture
Hosted by SoAH, the first The Urgency of the Arts Assembly takes as its theme Art and AI to explore AI in artistic practice.
The event welcomes special guests Professor Constant Dullaart and Dr Phoenix Perry. It will be convened by Professor Johnny Golding and Dr Linda Rocco.
Guests
Professor Constant Dullaart explores how social and cultural values reverberate in tools and technology. Dullaart creates works to emphasize an enjoyable friction between old and new, manual and automated, online and offline, real or not.
Dr Phoenix Perry researches embodied interaction, small-data machine learning, data commons, and the ways people develop cognitive models to understand AI systems. As a Reader at UAL, they develop tools and practices that enable more accessible, context-aware, and inclusive approaches to engaging with computation.
Convenors
Professor Johnny Golding is a contemporary philosopher engaging present-day knowledge systems through experimental poetics and the onto-epistemology of 'radical matter'. Johnny has led major projects research projects including two HK/RCA AiDesign Labs exploring artificial/ distributed intelligence via the fantastic common octopus and, with Tom Simmons (Head of Digital Directions), real-world AI narratives via human, interspecies, machinic and more-than-human co-evolution (2022-25).
Dr Linda Rocco is an independent curator, writer, and research tutor at the Royal College of Art. She is curator (Arts & Technology) at Somerset House Studios where she leads n-Space. Her practice-based research focuses on emerging models of collaboration in art and technology.
