I am a PhD researcher, based at Royal Holloway, in the Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Digital Media Inclusion. My research is focused on what I am calling “slow AI”. By this I mean making AI a better tool for human expression, by forcing it to participate in a more meaningful artistic dialogue with the user. As well as a career in technology, I hold a Master in Fine Art with Distinction from Central St Martins, and a PhD in theoretical chemistry from Imperial College in London.
Can AI Make Art?
Workshop
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is, rightly, a very controversial topic in art. In this session, I hope to give you a sense of how AI models can create imagery ‘under-the-hood’, and to explore why this imagery might or might not be ‘art’. I acknowledge the limitations and issues of AI today, but also look at some interesting ways AI is already being used in Fine Art. I conclude by talking about my hopes for how AI technologies might become a tool for true human expression in the future, and start a critical and open conversation about how we as artists might choose to engage, or not engage, with it.
