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The full conference programme is in this Google sheet!

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DAY 1  09:50 Aesthetics and the Artificial

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DAY 1  09:50 Aesthetics and the Artificial

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09:50-11:00

Chair - David Smith

Muindi - Ancestral intelligences & Divination

Roberta Raymond Nolan - AI Fusion Fantasy: The Reflection Revealed? (Research from the University of Limerick Living Lab XTREME Project)

Pierre Cassou-Noguès - on film - n’archives of a fire

Susan Pearson - on seeing AI as illusion, delusion, or solution

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DAY 1  15:40 Agency - cognition and language

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DAY 1  15:40 Agency - cognition and language

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15:40-16:25

Chair - Bo Goranzon

Rasmus Garhn-Andersen, on repetition of practices of sayings and doings

Stephen Cowley, on languaging, doing agency

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Registration fees

19/20 September - Regular: £90 ; Students: £45

Limited number of 1 Day passes - Regular: £45 ; Student: £25

REGISTER HERE

Accommodation

Reserved for booking:

Selwyn College, single en-suite, breakfast included: £106 (includes VAT); Please email us for booking code.

Wolfson College, £65+VAT, breakfast £12:50+VAT (Booking via the registration link above)

Murray Edwards, £80.50+VAT breakfast included

For options in other colleges, see universityrooms.com: e.g Christs' £89 breakfast included. Please email us for booking code.

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From London Heathrow to Cambridge

There are several ways to travel from London Heathrow to Cambridge.

A. Take the Heathrow Express to London Paddington, then take the London Underground ("tube") to London Kings Cross.  You will need a Circle Line or Hammersmith and City train going Eastbound. From London Kings Cross, take the train to Cambridge. The Heathrow Express is quicker into central London than taking the tube all the way, but does involve more changes.

B. Take the London Underground ("tube") from Heathrow to London Kings Cross.  You will need a Piccadilly line train going Eastbound. From London Kings Cross, take the train to Cambridge.

C. Take a National Express coach from Heathrow to Cambridge. This will take you  direct to Cambridge city centre.

D. Arrange for a car to meet you at Heathrow.  If you pre-book and are travelling in a group, this can be more cost effective and easier than taking public transport.

NB - there are fewer trains on Sundays and buses may replace trains if there is scheduled engineering work.  Please use the links to check timetables.

From London Gatwick to Cambridge

There are several ways to travel from London Gatwick to Cambridge.

A. Take the train to London Victoria, then take the London Underground ("tube") to London Kings Cross.  You will need a Victoria Line or  train going Northbound. From London Kings Cross, take the train to Cambridge.

B. Take the train London St Pancras, cross the road to London King's Cross and take the train to Cambridge.

C. Take a National Express coach from Gatwick to Cambridge. This will take you  direct to Cambridge city centre.

D. Arrange for a car to meet you at Gatwick.  If you pre-book and are travelling in a group, this can be more cost effective and easier than taking public transport.

NB - there are fewer trains on Sundays and buses may replace trains if there is scheduled engineering work.  Please use the links to check timetables.

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DAY 1  11:40 Human-AI Organisational Ecosystems

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DAY 1  11:40 Human-AI Organisational Ecosystems

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11:40-12:50

Chair - Senay Ghebreah

Britta Nordin Forsberg, fairplay in organisations: AI integration?

Iris Long, artistic processes

Anders Crichton Fock, the art of art

Lucy Císař Brown & Petr Špecián, AI as oracle

Eva Pascoe - sci fi for envisioning futures

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The conference is being held at the Faculty of Music on West Road in the Recital Room (the Concert Hall building). Registration will be from 08:00 in the foyer of the main entrance.

Tea/coffee will be available during Registration.

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Faculty of Music: Map of the University of Cambridge

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University of Cambridge map and directory

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Day 1  16:25  Agency, Art and Augmentation

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Day 1  16:25  Agency, Art and Augmentation

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16:25-17:15

Chair - Sha Xin-Wei

Annouchka Bayley, Alan Blackwell, Liz Blackwell & Luke Church - Playing with Propriomic Augmentation

Justin Pickard (FoAM) - Latent Futures: Anarchival Practices and Intimate Prototypes in Human-AI Interactions

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09:40-11:00

Chair - Ian Cross

Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong, Local Authorities adopting AI in ethical ways

Gay Morgan, legal regulations of AI global picture and what’s missing

Peter Mantello, Suturing the Biological and Computational: Ethics of Emotional AI and Cybernetic Futures

Jinqian Li, Yuxin Xiao, Peter Novitzky, Synthesis of AI tools and strategies against disinformation in 21st century

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DAY 1

11:00-11:30 Dialogue and Certainty

Satinder Gill talks with Bo Goranzon

DAY 2

11:00-11:30 Ethical Impacts of Globalisation

Satinder Gill talks with Caterina Berbenni-Rehm and Andrew James Brown

DAY 2

17:00-18:00 Reflections on Future Directions

Chair - Karamjit S Gill

Sha Xin-Wei, Ian Cross, Senay Ghebreah, Alan Bundy, Bo Goranzon, Ghislaine Boddington, Chrysi Nanou

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13:40-14:45

Chair - Satinder Gill

Carolyn Smith - Volcanic Rhythms: Meaning-making from within the 'noise'

Conor Heaney - Leroi-Gourhan and the Critique of Cerebralism: Technics & Rhythm, Gesture & Program

Helen - re-imagining gestures of Womens' caligraphy in 19th Century Japan

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14:15 - 15:15

Panel led by the University of Limerick XTREME Living Lab (Horizon Europe XTREME project on Mixed reality Environments for Art and Culture)

Chair - Martin Cunneen

Martin Cunneen (Andrew Kaung, Tanaka Gandidzanwa) - SmARTivism: Assessing the Promise and Perils of Artivism, Political Messaging and Protest in an Age of Immersive AI

Tanaka Gandidzanwa (Martin Cunneen, Andrew Kaung, Sami Brandt) - Is the Future of Communication Immersive? Assessing the Benefits and Risks of an Immersive WhatsAPP Environment from the perspective of the Global South

Andrew Kaung (Martin Cunneen, Tanaka Gandidzanwa) - Democratising AI: Who gets to decide the AI and Immersive future?

Simon Thomas (Martin Cunneen, Andrew Kaung, Tanaka Gandidzanwa, Cathriona Murphy, Gerard Keenan) - Behind the Virtual Mask: Complicit, Shared Experience and Empathy in the Experience of Virtual Avatars, Agents and Profiles.

The XTREME project is a Horizon Europe project focusing on developing innovative mixed-reality environments for art and culture. The panel consists of members of the XTREME project living lab based at the University of Limerick. A cross-discipline mix of knowledge domains is fused to offer interesting insights from the XTREME Living Lab research. The panel presents some interesting and topical questions concerning the question of benefits and risks of humanity's emerging Immersive future.

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DAY 2  11:20 Digital Human Twins - Our Future Data Selves

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DAY 2  11:20 Digital Human Twins - Our Future Data Selves

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Chair - Ghislaine Boddington Expert in virtual physical representation and the future self (Reader in Digital Immersion at University of Greenwich and Visiting Professor of Collective Embodiment at The BRAINS Lab, Kingston University)

Introduction of panel

Summary of the research project "My Hybrid AI BioTwin" by Ghislaine Boddington, emerging from her long-term work on the representation of the human body through digital technologies. Digital Human Twins - our future data selves is a practice-as-research initiative led by Ghislaine Boddington (2021-27), exploring and developing a personalised digital human twin, an AI hybrid biotwin, a digital counterpart that grows, learns, and evolves alongside their human partners, that supports and guidance from birth and beyond death.

These digital twins are conceived to offer a unique blend of technological innovation and human experience, linked to AI and real-time biometrics. They push the boundaries of personal and professional development, health monitoring and identity management, while extending human presence far beyond physical limitations. Phase 1 of this ongoing interdisciplinary practice led research is a prospective overview of the current state of play.

Discussion and inputs from :-

Prof. Karen Cham: Professor of Augmented Intelligence, Digital Transformation & Design (The BRAINS Lab, Kingston University).

Samantha Tauber: Active digital twin user as musician / singer VNCCII, creating innovative immersive content for the Metaverse and beyond.

Prof Gaëlle Vallée Tourangeau: Professor of Behavioural Science and School Director of Research and Enterprise (The BRAINS Lab, Kingston University)

The panel will discuss the future implications of digital human twins across multiple sectors, using present day case studies and highlighting key developments and convergences in AI, biometrics and full body scanning that are enabling these virtual counterparts to become our “companions” though their human like behaviours and characteristics. It will debate the social, behavioural, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects that the nuanced impacts of ‘emotionally intelligent’ AI’s will have on human behaviour and society.

How will future evolutions of digital human twins challenge our notions of self? What implications are there for personal and societal ethics that are emerging alongside these evolutions. What is their significance to the future of our digital and physical identity?

BIOGRAPHIES IN COMMENTS BELOW

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15:15-16:15

Chairs - Chrysi Nanou and Miriam Akkerman

Steve Benford (presenting a collaboration with Marco Amerotti, Bob Sturm, Juan Martinez Avila, Craig Vear) - Agency, Embodiment and Animacy When Performing with AI

Rebecca Fiebrink

Eamonn Bell

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DAY 1 & DAY 2  Talking with posters, and Video'd talks! (with special session during the Reception)

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DAY 1 & DAY 2  Talking with posters, and Video'd talks! (with special session during the Reception)

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Talking with posters

Ting-Chun Liu & Leon-Etienne Kühr - Self-Cannibalizing AI: Artistic experiments on generative image models using

Seohoo Yi - Discussing the Meaning of Agency in the Era of AI: Focusing on Liberal Art Examples from Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and Co-creative Perspectives

Sarah Jones & Alwin de Rooij - Augmenting Creative Practice in Professional Contexts with AI: Insights from Artists’ understanding of Agency and Appropriation

Marc Elliot, Deepak P., & Muiris MacCarthaigh - The Public Sector and Uncertainties: Adapting-to-AI

Zekiye Mine Galip Koca - Exploring the Perception of AI-Powered Technology in its Entirety: Need for a New Perspective and Terminology

Eva Pascoe, Claire Steves & Stephen Oram- AI Foresight via the medium of sci-fi short stories

Jasmeet Kang - Case Study: Technology-Enhanced Teacher Training in India, a Human Centred journey

Video'd talks (click on the title to watch the video) (being updated)

Johan Hugo Fredrikzon (Berkeley) - Re-establishing The Dialogue and Respecting the Error: How a 1980s Critique of Artificial Intelligence Can Sober up the Augmentation Discourse.

Grace Turtle & Blazej Kotowski - Sounding Territories: (Re)attuning with Simulations through Processes of Disidentification

Nina Barbier (Paris) - A journey from documentary film to VR

Toni Dove (New York) - Looking for the Somatic relationship of the human body to narrative time.

Victoria Vesna (UCLA Los Angeles, Art|Science) - Sunflower Plasma, 'how art and science can intertwine to reveal deeper understanding'.

Uma Dagnino (Dancer, Venzuela)- There, where I bow, I dance...

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DAY 1

Sha Xin-Wei - Thought or algorithm? Gesture or mechanism? Organism or golem? (Slides http://topologicalmedialab.net/xinwei/papers/slides/teda24 or PDF )

David Berry - Agency: augmentating, automating and informating (Chair, Alan Bundy)

DAY 2

Joanna Bryson

Harry Collins - The Brain and Society