Taking place on Saturday 23 April between 2-4pm, this FREE 2-hour workshop introduces tools and approaches to making art with artificial intelligence.  The workshop will be led by the Art AI Festival and internationally recognized curator Luba Elliott and will start by discussing recent examples of creative artificial intelligence (AI) artworks. Luba will then discuss the approaches used by artists including why the artworks they have created have been successful. She will outline the AI tools that can be used to make art, particularly focussing on working with images and text, and introduce some of the tools that are readily available on the internet.  Workshop participants will gain an understanding of the resources and communities available online that can help you to make your own creative work with artificial intelligence.

To participate in the workshop, you need to bring your own laptop and smartphone, which you will connect to the wifi in the building using a password provided on the day.

Luba Elliott is a curator, producer and researcher specialising in artificial intelligence in the creative industries.  She is currently working to educate and engage the broader public about the latest developments in creative AI through talks, exhibitions and tech demonstrations at venues across the art, business and technology spectrum including The Photographers’ Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, ZKM Karlsruhe, Impakt Festival, The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, CogX, NeurIPS and ICCV.  Her recent projects include ART-AI Festival, the online gallery aiartonline.com and NeurIPS Machine Learning for Creativity and Design Workshop. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence. Prior to that, she worked in start-ups, including the art collector database Larry’s List. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge and has a certificate in Design Thinking from the Hasso-Plattner-Institute D-school in Potsdam.

Luba has been the curator of the Art AI Festival and is a founding partner. She has also been a speaker at all the Art AI Festival past events.  In 2021, she gave an update on the state of creative artificial intelligence a part of the Festival’s online programme – you can watch the recording here.