FOURTH PORTAL
GATEWAY TO THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
About the Event
Introduction
“The Shadowplay installation facilitates creative and embodied interaction with a generative AI image diffusion model. The work aspires to facilitate a tangible experience of working with generative AI and produces striking, aesthetic, and provocative images exposing the edges of our creative relationships with this new class of technology. Exhibition-goers enter into a generative interplay between the probabilistic uncertainty of AI technologies, the familiarity of light, and the experimental playfulness of using one’s body to cast a shadow. By enabling a tangible interaction with this rapidly-evolving technology, we probe the quality and nature of AI-mediated imaginaries, while also providing a ‘lived’ means to experience the limits of its expressiveness and the inseparable ties to underlying training data. Shadowplay balances a provocative and critical stance on AI and creativity, produces a captivating stream of beautiful and striking imagery, and achieves this through an engaging, playful, and tangible interaction.”
Development Team behind the Shadowplay: Dr Joseph Lindley, Senior Research Fellow at ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University & Dr Jesse Josua Benjamin, Research Associate who run Design Research Works a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship which aims to understand, gather evidence about, and promote leadership for Design Research.
More on the event lead
Paul is the Chair of Speculative and Game Design within Imagination and the School of Design. His practice uses research through design to create experiential futures which deliberately mix a present experience with a speculative future that are concretised by combining immersive scenarios with artefacts produced as design fictions or speculative designs. His work has helped establish a particular form of Speculative Design; Design Fiction, as a research method exploring futures for areas such as the Internet of Things and Artificial intelligence. His current research focusses on more-than-human design to expand design approaches so that they play greater consideration to human and non-human actants within the complex assemblages in which new product and services exist particularly in relation to sustainability and climate change.
Event Information
No ticket is required, free event.
The Shadowplay location to follow
Open to all ages, fully interactive.
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