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2-4 JULY 2024, SCHOOL OF DIGITAL ARTS, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
STORYTELLERS + MACHINES 2024
Storytellers + Machines 2024 was a transdisciplinary creative AI conference that took place between 2nd and 4th July. Over the two days, over 75 invited and selected artists, academics and creative technologists the burgeoning wave of creative AI technologies and artistic responses in the lively and contested space.
︎2024 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
2024: EXHIBITS AND INTERVIEWS
In this video (2:30 mins), see work from the exhibition and hear from keynotes from Storytellers+Machines 2024 - NYC artist Janet Biggs and Ersin han Ersin (Creative Director, UK-based Marshmallow Laser Feast) - as well as performance researcher Amy Spencer (University of Exeter) and independent artist and technologist Adam Trella.
JANET BIGGS
Wednesday 3rd July
︎Award-winning research-based interdisciplinary artist
︎New York, US
Janet Biggs is a research based, interdisciplinary artist known for her immersive work in video, film and performance. Biggs’ work focuses on individuals in extreme landscapes or situations, navigating the territory between art, science and technology. Her work has taken her into areas of conflict and to Mars (as a member of crews at the Mars Desert Research Station and Mars Academy USA). Biggs has worked with institutions from NOAA to NASA and CERN. She has collaborated with high energy nuclear physicists, neuroscientists, Arctic explorers, aerospace engineers, astrophysicists and a robot named Shimon.
Her work with AI includes “Voices of Inclusion: AI and Authenticity in the Spectrum of Care and Support” (pictured), a multi-discipline performance that was part of the First International Day of Care and Support at the United Nation Headquarters, New York City in 2023.
Biggs is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Visionary Woman Award, the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts Award, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and the NEA Fellowship Award.