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2026 CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS




At Storytellers + Machines 2026 conference more than seventy-five attendees from around the UK and internationally came together over two days to discuss creative AI and algorithmic cultures. Academics, artists, technologists and interested members of the public converged to debate AI and our creative relationship to it, informed by transdisciplinary research from the domains of art and performance, computer science and cultural theory. 

Special thanks to our keynote speakers, panellists and artists!


Series co-leads: David Jackson & Lois MacDonald
Series management team: Adam Cooke, Alasdair Swenson, Chloe Wake, Damon Bannister, Jenny Cromwell, John Lloyd 

Videography: Aiden Everitt, Robert Gosling (SODA student), Millie Pickburn-Perkins (SODA student)

Funded by:

SODA, Manchester Met Uni
  Manchester Game Centre, Man Met uni
School of Digital Arts, Manchester Games Centre and Speculative Technologies Group at Manchester Metropolitan University