Creative AI Meetup: July
This event will host talks from artists and researchers presenting AI technologies and their creative applications.
Event schedule:
18:00 Arrival
18:30 Introduction by curator Luba Elliott and venue host Subaita Rahman
18:35 Piotr Mirowski, Google DeepMind and Improbotics: 'Making Stuff up with LLMs and Staging AI as an Improv Partner'
19:00 Diana Alina Serbanescu, Lecturer at CCI & Transdisciplinary Performance Artist: Talk Title TBC
19:25 Atay Ilgun, Artist & Curator, Neural Folklore & Other Realities
19:50 Talks finish, networking
20:30 Event close
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More on talks and speakers:
Piotr Mirowski, Google DeepMind and Improbotics: 'Making Stuff up with LLMs and Staging AI as an Improv Partner'
The term “robot” first appeared in Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R., but it took 80 years of technological progress to bring robots into live performances alongside actors. The coexistence of naturalism and artifice, of script and improvisation, allowed theatre companies to explore human-AI relationships, while the impressive developments in language and image models have both opened new creative possibilities for artists and surfaced ethical concerns. I will discuss AI as a creativity support tool, focusing on live performance with generative AI.
Piotr Mirowski is the Director of Improbotics, a theatre company that pioneered improvisation with artificial intelligence and robots on stage, investigating the intersection of AI and human creativity. Piotr is also an AI researcher, currently Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and Visiting Researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Diana Alina Serbanescu, Lecturer at CCI & Transdisciplinary Performance Artist: Talk Title TBC
Talk Title and Abstract TBC
In her artistic practice and research, Diana explores feminist approaches to knowledge creation, the potential of poetic machines, and the continued validity of traditions in an era of artificial intelligence and digital colonisation. As the artistic director of REPLICA she imagines the dance-theatre of the future – playful, subversive, underpinned by new technologies – a laboratory for human and non-human actors negotiating agency, generating new aesthetics and narratives.
Atay Ilgun, Artist & Curator, Neural Folklore & Other Realities
This talk will focus on Atay Ilgun's music and artistic practice since 2018. His work examines AI’s function as both instrument and interlocutor and foregrounds its use in the creation of allegorical but real objects designed to trigger hallucinatory feedback loops, speculative systems of lore and machinic world-building. The talk will further consider the convergence of AI and blockchain through the lens of experimental, decentralised system design, reflecting on their implications for authorship, agency, and aesthetics in contemporary art practice.
Atay Ilgun is a London-based artist, creative technologist, and curator whose work navigates the psychic and aesthetic dimensions of AI, blockchain, and experimental media. Rooted in cyber-folklore, machinic poetics, and reality systems, his practice explores how emerging technologies distort and reconstruct myth, identity, and perception. He has worked at IKLECTIK, the University of the Arts London, Moth Quantum and has seen work featured in The Wire, BBC, Café OTO and CLOT Magazine.