AI X Creativity Clinic [London]

AI X Creativity : Making with Machines

Can AI be a creative collaborator without becoming the author? How do we stay in the driver's seat when working with machine learning tools? This session explores the tension between AI as catalyst and AI as crutch, and invites you to question, experiment and define your own terms of engagement. Whether you're curious, skeptical or somewhere in between, we want to think through this with you.

Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can between £5-12 with a few free tickets reserved for those who are currently unwaged or cannot afford to attend otherwise. We do not want this to cause a financial barrier to anyone please email us if you need a free ticket at [email protected].

How is this going to go?

We'll open with an AI x Creativity Clinic, a facilitated conversation using prompts and provocations around your current feelings around AI. Here, you can share your struggles, anxieties, curiosities and challenges openly. From this discussion, we'll draft a few guiding principles for Artist-AI relations together.

Then we'll move into a hands-on play session where you'll be introduced to selected projects by key artists who break apart/ reimagine AI models through their practice to inspire you to experiment with different machine learning tools through creative prompts. Think pose detection, image generation and other models that look nothing like ChatGPT. Note, we are going to be using a tool built by Lex himself and *WILL NOT* be using large language models or software developed by companies we ethically disagree with for this exercise.

After, we'll close with a short show and tell so you can share what you made and what you noticed during the process.

Please bring a laptop if you have one. No prior experience with AI needed.

There will be soft drinks, snacks and pizza/small chops but feel free to bring your own dinner if you’d like.

Refunds: This is a small team and so we cannot accommodate refunds but if plans change, let us know as soon as you can and we can add your ticket to the waitlist or share it online to try and pass it on to someone else

Image: Hip Hop Poetry Bot, Lex Fefegha (2021)

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Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Green Road, London, United Kingdom

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