AI and the Arts: What Does this Mean for our Creative Future?
19 May 2026 17:30 until 19:00
Brighton & Hove - The Globe Room, The Projects
Speaker: Robyn Waller
Part of the series: Festival of Ideas
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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"