Future Culture Edinburgh

A recently published report from this hybrid event considers the need for change and more diverse voices in our cultural landscape in a post-COVID future.

Future Culture Edinburgh

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A recently published report from this hybrid event considers the need for change and more diverse voices in our cultural landscape in a post-COVID future.

AI centre stage in weird and wonderful take on Festival Fringe

In the absence of a physical version of the world’s biggest arts festival, this year EFI Director of Research, Professor Melissa Terras has invented the Improvbot which uses Artificial Intelligence to analyse a digital archive of Fringe listings, and  to imagine a series of mind-bending online spectacles.

The inaugural Experiential AI artist residency

Paintings of flowers hanging on a wall

Drew Hemment discusses the first Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) artist residency, one of two Experiential AI projects in 2020 that investigate the entanglements between humans and machines, and explore how experiential methods can reveal insights on future scenarios for ethical and responsible AI.

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