AI & ART: May 23rd 2024, Cork Street

Luba Elliott is a curator and researcher specialising in AI art. She works to educate and engage the broader public about the developments in AI art through talks and exhibitions at venues across the art, business and technology spectrum including The Serpentine Galleries, arebyte, ZKM, V&A Museum, Feral File, CVPR and NeurIPS. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for...

Kay Watson is a researcher, producer and curator working with art and advanced technologies, photography and video games. Kay is currently Head of Arts Technologies at Serpentine and a Trustee of The Photographers' Gallery, Mediale and Brighton Photo Fringe.

Simon Hudson, co-lead of Botto, a decentralized autonomous artist run by the Botto DAO. Botto is a first-of-its-kind machine artist that has automated the creative process and interacts with an audience, understanding context and culture, while maintaining its agency as an artist and authorship.

Louis Jebb is a writer, editor and producer of content in virtual reality.

Jebb set up and edits The Art Newspaper’s XR Panel, which reviews art-world ventures in augmented and virtual reality. In 2014 he founded immersiv.ly, a maker of news content in virtual reality. The company produced one of the first news documentaries in 360-degree video, Hong Kong Unrest; the first art opening in VR...

Stefanie De Regel, head of development for TAEX, is a digital art advisor, panel speaker & curator, building projects that engage and connect the traditional art world with the digital realm. Stefanie was recently appointed as one of the international selector of The Lumen Prize 2024.

Katherine Mitchell is a PhD researcher in the Design and Digital curatorial section at the V&A Museum, London.

Katherine's research is concerned with this born-digital collection, but specifically the museum’s first software-based artworks, acquired around 2011, which she use to examine digital objects’ changing condition states in museum collections over time.

Sam Mercer is a producer of the digital programme at The Photographer's Gallery focusing on commissioning and curating the Media Wall. He is also an artist, primarily working with moving image, part of the Common Study artists' group. Recent projects include Interruptions, a browser extension with Field Broadcast and Bad Vibes Club as well as 'Nobody Must Realise', filmed around the Knaresborough...

Dr. Arthur I. Miller is a scientist, speaker and the author of Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art and The Artist In the Machine. Arthur has lectured and written on the history and philosophy of 19th- and 20th-century science and technology, cognitive science, scientific creativity, and the relation between art and science.

He was a Professor of History and...

Botto is a decentralized autonomous artist, initially conceptualized by Mario Klingemann, and governed by a collective of stakeholders through the structure of a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization).

Botto makes use of a combination of software models called Stable Diffusion, VQGAN + CLIP, GPT-3, voting, and a number of other models and custom augmentations. The generative models are the...