AI and the Arts: What Does this Mean For Our Creative Future?
Dr Cécile Chevalier, Dr Beatrice Fazi, Dr Irene Fubara-Manuel, Dr Chris Kiefer, Dr Robyn Waller and Dr Dan William
Join a conversation discussing AI in the arts
A Long Table for debate where artists, academics and the public can digest what it means to create with Generative AI (GenAI) in the arts today.
On the menu, you will discover the University’s internationally recognised expertise on cognitive science, creativity and digital humanities - from philosophy to computational practice and the arts. How does GenAI change artistic practice? What is or becomes of the artist? Does AI in the arts bring a new era of democratised knowledge? What are the costs of AI and the artists?
The Long Table format by Lois Weaver is an experimental, dinner‑table‑style public forum that stages open conversation as a kind of performance, inviting the audience/participants to sit together, dining in and out on thought and discussion. Throughout the ‘courses’ we will map out a collective understanding of AI in the Arts.
About host Lois Weaver
LOIS WEAVER is an artist, activist and Professor Emerita of Contemporary Performance Practice at Queen Mary University of London. She has collaborated with Peggy Shaw and Split Britches since 1980 and the company she received a NYC OBIE Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024. Recent performances with Split Britches include Unexploded Ordnances (2016-18) and Last Gasp; A Recalibration (2021-24). Her experiments in performance as a means of public engagement include the Long Table, Porch Sitting, Situation Room, Care Café, Public Studio, and her facilitating persona, Tammy WhyNot. Lois’s performance practice is documented in The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: Performance Works of Lois Weaver, edited by Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie, published by Intellect Books (2015).
A collaboration with Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex, the Festival of Ideas harnesses the transformative power of arts, culture, media and humanities to fashion new ways of thinking about the past, present and future.
*There is a £3.50 per order charge for all phone and online bookings (not applicable to Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival members)
**Stage timings are subject to change
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