Experiential AI Art Commission

OPEN CALL GOES LIVE ON DECEMBER 9TH 2022!

We delighted to announce our upcoming new Experiential AI (Artificial Intelligence) Art Commission in partnership with the New Real and the Alan Turing Institute.

An opportunity for an established creative practitioner (or practitioners) to work with The New Real's interdisciplinary team, AI tools and textual data to explore the social implications of recent developments in AI and present new work at partner Festivals in 2023.

The commission will take place across 2023 beginning at the end of January and culminating in the launch of the work produced at Edinburgh’s Festivals in August. There will be further opportunities to present prototypes and work in progress at AIUK, the Scottish AI Summit and the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Spring Programme in March, April and May.

The detailed Open Call for this exciting new opportunity will go live on the 9th of December 2022.

About Commission Partners:

The New Real

Established in 2019, The New Real is a unique hub for AI, creativity and futures research. It is a partnership between the University of Edinburgh, Alan Turing Institute, and Edinburgh’s Festivals. Its research explores how AI impacts on life at a profound level, often interacting with us in fascinating and unanticipated ways, and illuminates how emerging technology can become a creative, playful and deeply impactful part of everyday living.

The New Real team believes that art and creativity can help to radically change how we think about AI design, moving beyond the current paradigm of learning patterns from large amounts of data, to embrace human traits such as bias, disagreement, and uncertainty as a signal with creative potential rather than noise that needs to be removed.

They devise imaginative ways to experiment with new experiences, practices, infrastructures and business models, and to empower people to be agents of positive change.

The Scottish AI Alliance - www.scottishai.com

Delivering Scotland’s AI Strategy Scotland’s AI Strategy. It was launched in March 2021 with a vision for Scotland to become a leader in the development and use of trustworthy, ethical and inclusive AI. The Scottish AI Alliance is the body tasked with delivering this vision and the actions outlined in the strategy. It is a partnership between The Data Lab and the Scottish Government.

The Alan Turing Institute 

The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, with headquarters at the British Library.