Name: Opening Up
Start: 2024-07-25T18:00:00+01:00
Location: 3 Centenary Square, B1 2DR Birmingham, United Kingdom

Join Ikon and University of Birmingham at The Exchange for an evening of talks, exhibitions and creative workshops that open up conversations between artists and academics around AI Futures and the Stuart Hall Archive Project.
Hear Exodus Crooks talk about We need 2 tlk (2024) with Cathy Wade, Artist Facilitator, Vivid Projects, and participate in a creative text-based workshop led by artist Sadie Barnett. Listen to Dr Nick Beech and Dr Rita Gayle introduce live projects that expand access to the archive of Professor Stuart Hall (1932–2014).
18.00 Arrival
TALKS (BANKING HALL)
18.10 Welcome and Introduction to AI Futures – Simon Cane, Director of Public and Cultural Engagement, University of Birmingham
18.20 We need 2 tlk – Exodus Crooks, Artist, and Cathy Wade, Artist Facilitator, Vivid Projects
19.00 Break
19.10 Introducing the Stuart Hall Archive – Dr Nick Beech, Academic lead on the Stuart Hall Archive Project, University of Birmingham
19.35 Break
19.45 Introducing Conjunctures – Dr Rita Gayle, Research Fellow on the Conjunctures strand of the Stuart Hall Archive Project, University of Birmingham
20.10 Closing remarks – Linzi Stauvers, Artistic Director (Education), Ikon, and Julia Habeshaw, Head of Public Programmes, University of Birmingham
All talks are BSL interpreted by Gurmail Narwain and Joy Lear-Bernard.
WORKSHOP (SOUTH ENTRANCE)
18.00 - 20.00 Would a computer get it? – Sadie Barnett, Artist, Writer and Facilitator and Regan McDonald, Public Health Research Officer, Ikon and Birmingham City Council
EXHIBITION (THE VAULTS)
18.00 - 20.00 We need 2 tlk (2024) – a moving image installation by Exodus Crooks. Commissioned by University of Birmingham and Ikon as part of AI Futures at The Exchange.