As part of the Art Programme: Uncanny Machines, from The New Real, a world-leading and Edinburgh-based AI research hub, five AI artists have been awarded The New Real 2023 Development Grants to explore the uncanny interplay of humans and machines, and the social implications of recent developments in AI.
Each of the five artists is exploring imaginative ideas that push the boundaries of human-machine creativity, with a view to generate an artwork combining machine learning methods with human intuition and embodied experience, discovering features that are not in the data, and exploring an urgent challenge for our times.
The New Real 2023 Development Grant allows the five artists to conduct research and development (R&D) using The New Real’s AI Platform. The output of the R&D phase is a visual presentation and talk. These five talks will be available to watch on The New Real’s website and also in-person at the upcoming Scottish AI Summit on 28th March when the website goes live.
A full Art Commission will then be awarded to one of the five artists to bring their concept to life. The Commission is designed to provide transformative experiences for audiences, fuelled by AI, and present an artwork that addresses key challenges in AI, such as authorship, harmful bias or misinformation. The winner of the full Art Commission will be announced in March 2023.
The five artists are:
Kasia Molga – How to find the Soul of a Sailor
View Talk here (talk will go live on 28th Mar 2023).
Johann Diedrick & Amina Abbas-Nazari – Voicing the Unspoken
View Talk here (talk will go live on 28th Mar 2023).
Sarah Ciston – Asking the Wrong Questions about Generative AI: Emergent Ethics & Aesthetics in Machine Collaboration
View Talk here (talk will go live on 28th Mar 2023).
Alice Bucknell – Cones of Uncertainty
View Talk here (talk will go live on 28th Mar 2023).
Linnea Langfjord Kristensen & Kevin Walker – Fold Me, Bend Me, Break Me, Said the Computer
View Talk here (talk will go live on 28th Mar 2023).
Irene Brown
Radio Summerhall Arts 