The New Real: Uncanny Machines, five inspirational artistic projects
As part of the 2023 Scottish AI Summit The New Real announced five inspirational AI Artists who have been funded to explore the uncanny interplay of humans and machines, and the social implications of recent developments in AI. In 2023, The New Real is working with five artists to illuminate the ways emerging technology impacts life at a profound level.
Each artist has been awarded a The New Real 2023 Development Grant which enables the artists to investigate the entanglements of people, data, machines and environments and to develop multi-sensory exploration of possible futures. Each of the five artists tackles an urgent challenge for our times: grappling with the implications of artificial superintelligence; community-centred approaches to machine learning; giving voice to unheard voices in historic data; sensing lost loved ones in small datasets; and breaking open the 'black box' of AI.
About The New Real
Artists are pushing at the boundaries of human-machine creativity to generate works that combine machine learning methods with human intuition and embodied experience and discover features that are not in the data.
In The New Real, our idea is to provide artists accessible tools to directly manipulate a model, in order to enable profound artistic experiments with AI. We believe this can lead to better art, and also provides a basis to probe and question urgent issues of today. We are interested in transformative experiences for audiences fuelled by AI, and works that address key challenges in AI, such as authorship, harmful bias or misinformation.
The New Real 2023 AI Art Commission is a partnership between The New Real at University of Edinburgh, Scottish AI Alliance, Alan Turing Institute and The British Library.
