Events 2023
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Tuesday, 14-03-2023, (Zoom; 14:00-15:00 GMT): Webinar hosted by TCCE and CitAI.
AI and Performance
Chair: Eduardo Alonso (CitAI). Speakers: Karl Woolley, Mattias Frey, Aoi Nakamura & Esteban Lecoq, and Sahil Dhingra.In this discursive and informal event, we considered how AI is impacting questions of performance, in particular whether performance itself can be changed through engaging with and assimilating AI on the dance and film industries. We examined cultural touring companies and their use of digital media, and whether technology can address the increasing challenges of touring live work, and help audiences access performance. We also considered the use of AI during film production including in pre- and post-production, audience engagement and AI, as well as showcasing some pioneering work being undertaken across the creative and cultural industries.
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Events 2022
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Thursday, 29-09-2022, (Live and Zoom; 14:00-15:30 BST): Public lecture by Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein, CBE FREng, on “National Security in a Time of Emerging Technologies”, organised by CitAI and the Emerging Technologies Research Network at The City Law School.
Chairs: Eduardo Alonso (CitAI) and Patrick Goold (The City Law School). Speaker: Anthony Finkelstein (President of City, University of London).
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Tuesday, 13-09-2022: Workshop on “Copyright Encounters with the Blockchain, NFTs and AI Creativity”, organised by CitAI and The City Law School. Sponsored by the Alan Turing Institute, Turing Network Development Award.
Chairs: Eduardo Alonso (CitAI), Enrico Bonadio (The City Law School) and Caterina Sganga (Sant’Anna). Speakers: Andres Guadamuz (University of Sussex), Péter Mezei (University of Szeged), Ioanna Lapatoura (University of Nottingham), Giancarlo Frosio (Queen’s University Belfast), Anthony O'Dwyer (Queen’s University Belfast), Antoni Rubí-Puig (Pompeu Fabra University), Domenico Quaranta (Catholic University of Milan), Zoi Krokida (University of Stirling), Balázs Bodó (University of Amsterdam), Joost Poort (University of Amsterdam), Martin Zeilinger (Abertay University), Alana Kushnir (The Serpentine), Peter Yu (Texas A&M University), Primavera De Filippi (Harvard University) and Patrick Goold (The City Law School).
The workshop will consider the challenges posed by the irruption of NFT crypto art, and its impact on copyright and intellectual property regimes. In particular, issues at the intersection between AI, smart contracts, data science, copyright law, business and social sciences will be discussed. Indeed, there are ongoing debates around what the ownership of NFTs give collectors under copyright law; if creating and distributing NFTs violates copyright and moral rights; the liability of NFTs platforms; the impact on authenticity rules and counterfeiting; the ethical and philosophical aspects of creating, distributing, and collecting NFTs within the copyright framework.
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Wednesday, 27-07-2022, (Zoom; 10:25-11:40 BST): Plenary Session on “NFTs and the Rise of Digital Assets”, GlobalWIIN Conference 2022
Chair: Eduardo Alonso. Speakers: Hayleigh Bosher, James Faktor, Maria Esmeralda Palaganas and Yasmin Alhilli. -
Thursday, 23-06-2022, (Zoom; 11:00-12:00 BST): Webinar organised jointly with the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine.
Empowering Healthcare with AI
Chair: Eduardo Alonso. Speakers: Giacomo Tarroni, Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro, and Alex-Ter Sarkisov.
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- Tuesday, 24-05-2022, (Zoom; 14:00-15:30 BST): Webinar hosted by TCCE and CitAI.
NFTs and Poetry
Chair: Dr Eduardo Alonso. Speakers: Dr Jeneen Naji, Bronac Ferran, Nick Makoha and Sasha Stiles.
In this two-part webinar we will explore new trends in digital poetry, more specifically, AI-generated poetry and how the blockchain is being used to circulate and sell poetry. We will consider two questions: What way might NFTs and the block chain impact poets? and, Can AI help generate poetry in the blockchain?
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- Tuesday, 26-04-2022, (Zoom; 13:00-14:00 BST): Webinar hosted by TCCE.
NFTs 101
Speakers: Dr Eduardo Alonso, and Luba Elliott.
Eduardo Alonso and Luba Elliott will explain in simple terms what NFTs are, and how and why academics and practitioners should engage with them, followed by audience questions and answers.
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Credit: Women Rise, by Maliha Abidi
- Tuesday, 25-01-2022 (Zoom; 14:00): Webinar hosted by TCCE and CitAI.
AI, Art and Activism
ChairDr Eduardo Alonso. Speakers: Régine Debatty, Luba Elliott, Dr Ramon Amaro, and Dr Bill Balaskas.
The event focused on AI as both a subject of and tool for art and activism. We considered issues of AI bias, exploitation, and exclusion, and how AI artivism may address these.
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Events 2021
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Thursday, 16-09-2021 (11:00-12:00 BST): Webinar Series: STEM in Healthcare - Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.
Giacomo Tarroni, Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasor and Christina Malamateniou as speakers in this event organised by the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering (SMCSE), City, University of London and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM). Eduardo Alonso chaired.
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- Wednesday, 21-04-2021 Eventbrite (18:00-19:30 BST): World Creativity & Innovation Day symposium.
Eduardo Alonso gave a talk as special guest of this CebAI event on Can AI create art?
Slides (.pptx) available here
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