Frequency Festival The Meet Up: AI Panel Discussion
Join our panel of experts, artists and led by award winning speaker and curator Ghislaine Boddington to explore how rapid innovation in AI is enabling artists and academics to explore and challenge the parameters of practice, inclusion and engagement through experimentation and engagement with audiences and visitors.
Join our panel of experts, artists and led by award winning speaker and curator Ghislaine Boddington to explore how rapid innovation in AI is enabling artists and academics to explore and challenge the parameters of practice, inclusion and engagement through experimentation and engagement with audiences and visitors. Panel includes artists Maria Mavropolou (Athens), Tim Murray Browne (UK) and Beccy Mccray (UK) and Francesco Del Duchetto, Asst prof in Robotics and Autonomous systems.
Tickets are free but places are limited, so booking is requested here
Itinerary for the session:
2 - 2:15 Welcome and registration
2:15 - 3pm: Hosted panel conversation exploring how AI and creativity is affecting or enabling practice
3pm - 3:45 pm Facilitated conversation with audience and panel around AI and inclusivity
3:45 - 4pm Networking and close
For anyone planning a visit the - the full Frequency programme information is here www.frequency.org.uk
This discussion is a partnership event with Threshold Studios, Lincoln Museum and University of Lincoln, supported using public funding by Arts Council England
Speaker and panel information is below and for any queries please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Ghislaine Boddington:
Ghislaine is an award-winning speaker, curator and director, specialising in the future human, body responsive technologies and immersive experiences since the early 90s. She is Co-founder and Creative Director of the pioneer interaction design collective body>data>space. With a background in dance and performing arts and a long-term focus on the blending of our virtual and physical bodies, she engages in highly topical and future digital issues for our living bodies, including personal data usage, and sees a future in which we connect ourselves into a networked “multi-self,” an “Internet of Bodies” enabled by hyper-enhancement of the senses and tele-intuition. In 2017 she was awarded the esteemed SAT IX Immersion Experience International Visionary Pioneer Award in recognition for her long term and inspirational work on collective embodiment in digital immersion. A Professor in Digital immersion at the University of Greenwich, she also works as a technology researcher and presenter for BBC World Service and, as a strong equity advocate, is an active mentor and Trustee for Stemettes Futures.
Maria Mavropolou
Maria Mavropoulou lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is a visual artist using mainly photography while her work expands to new forms of photographic images, such as VR and screen-captured images, GAN and AI-generated images. Her work and research focus on the new realities created by the connectible devices and the contradictions between the physical and the virtual spaces that we inhabit, addressing issues of technological mediation. By using the most novel technology available to her, she creates work that reflects on the new ways images are produced today. Her work explores digital identity and representation in the post-social media era, algorithmic bias, network culture, power politics between machines and humans, and the multidimensionality of our experiences in our always-online world.
Beccy Mccray
Beccy Mccray explores playful, socially engaged art and design using whatever media necessary to create human moments and imaginative acts of resistance. She seeks to break down boundaries between art, activism, and everyday life.
Exploring intersectional climate and nature storytelling she is inspired by the notion of relationships and ecologies. People, place and participation lie at the heart of her interdisciplinary practice, and she acts as both curator and collaborator; creating frameworks within which unexpected events can occur.
Beccy has partnered with diverse groups, from older people with dementia, to young people with complex needs, and moradores da favela during her residency in Brazil. For more than a decade she has been working to inspire positive change at grass roots level, helping to build a more joyful and just future.
Tim Murray- Browne
Tim Murray-Browne is an artist, engineer and coder based in Glasgow working across AI, dance and generative audio-visual art. His work explores how technology shapes the way we think – and how we might build it differently – through the lenses of embodiment and human agency. It includes interactive AI systems that translate dance into sound, an ensemble of new musical instruments that is played entirely by its audience, interactive audio-visual sculptures and technologically augmented performances. Tim holds a Masters in Maths and Computer Science from Oxford University and a PhD in Electronic Engineering from Queen Mary, University of London. His work has been awarded the Sonic Arts Prize, nominated for the Ars Electronica STARTS Prize and shown at venues including Tate Modern (London), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow) and Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology (Milan).
Francesco Del Duchetto
Francesco is a Lecturer (Asst. Prof.) in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems at the University of Lincoln UK. His research focuses on developing robots that can learn from the human feedback to adapt their behaviour and improve their autonomy while acting in the real world. His expertise is in the fields of Human-Robot Interaction, AI and Machine Learning, Robot Navigation. He has developed the robot Lindsey which provides archaeological guided tours in the Lincoln Museum, in a deployment lasting several years and that has engaged more than 15,000 visitors to date.