Museum x Machine x Me Late

Anjalie Dalal-Clayton
15.30-16.15 Room 28, Collection Galleries, Main Floor

Anjalie Dalal-Clayton invites a collective close reading of Kudzanai-Violet Hwami's Expiation.

Andrew Cummings
15.30-16.15 Library Reading Rooms, Lower Floor

Andrew Cummings delves into material from the archives of Hamad Butt and David Medalla.

Alice Correia
16.30-17.15 Room 16, Collection Galleries, Main Floor

Alice Correia explores F.N. Souza's Crucifixion and Lancelot Ribeiro's Cityscape (Night).

Ian Sergeant
17.30-18.15 Duffield Room, Clore Wing, Lower Floor

Ian Sergeant in conversation with archivist Hardish Virk.

18.30-19.30 Clore Auditorium
BSL Interpreted

Hear from artist Keith Piper and art historian Anjalie Dalal-Clayton as they discuss Piper's research into Rex Whistler's 1926 mural The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats, and the artistic strategies he used when making his commissioned response, Viva Voce.

Biographies

Keith Piper (born 1960) is a British artist, curator, critic and academic. He was a founding member of the groundbreaking BLK Art Group, an association of Black British art students, mostly based in the West Midlands region of the UK.

Anjalie Dalal-Clayton is an art historian focusing on Black and brown British artists. As a Research Fellow at UAL's Decolonising Arts Institute she investigates collecting, interpretation and display practices in public museums.

19.30-20.30 Room 37, Turner Galleries, Clore Wing

Redefine the possible and liberate AI algorithms from their colonial origins in this participatory session led by the Storyteller from the Future.

In this fishbowl conversation, the inner circle will initially be filled with invited guest speakers, whilst the outer circle will be made up of audience members who listen and observe. Before long, members from the audience will be invited to replace speakers in the inner circle, contributing their own thoughts and questions. The conversation will evolve throughout the night as participants harness the power of their individual narratives as a force for change.

Biography

Karen Palmer is the Storyteller from the Future, an award-winning international artist and TED Speaker. She creates immersive film experiences that watch you back using AI and facial recognition, with her recent commission by the BFI Consensus Gentium recently awarded XR Experience Winner 2023 at SXSW. As an international speaker she highlights the potential impact of AI from a social justice perspective.

18.00 & 19.00, Duveens, Main Floor

This spoken word performance examines representation in both physical and digital realms. Koranteng explores the process of digitisation, the transformation of physical objects into digital files, as well as obsolete technologies such as broken links and VHS tapes. This performance takes inspiration from a conversation between the performer and artist Dame Sonia Boyce, as part of their collaborative work on the Transforming Collections research project.

Biography

Kaitlene Koranteng is an archivist, engagement producer and poet with an interest in exploring marginalised histories and access to archives. Koranteng currently works at iniva, is part of a group archivists and librarians working with the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora, is a coordinating member of the Young Historian Project and is on the editorial board of History Matters journal, an accessible, free journal sharing histories of African and Caribbean People in Britain.

18.00-21.00 Room 8, Collection Galleries, Main Floor

Meticulously arranged boxes form a rigid grid at the core of the gallery, symbolising the structured way museum collections are categorised, analysed, and presented. Within this apparent order lies an inherent tension, suggesting that beneath every carefully curated display is a wealth of untold stories.

Spotlights sweep across the gallery, their beams searching, scanning and interrogating the space. As they move through the gallery, they seem to hunt for data, attempting to decode the secrets of the boxes, like AI scanning vast collections of digitised heritage. This cold, mechanical search contrasts with the warmth and humanity of the artworks they scan, reflecting the disconnect between algorithmic processing and the lived experiences that these collections represent.

Biographies

Hyphen-Labs are an ether-based design duo led by Ece Tankal and Carmen Aguilar y Wedge. Resisting contemporary consumption-based technologies, they challenge conventions and stimulate conversations, placing planetary needs and collective experiences at the centre of current narratives.

Ece Tankal is a Turkish born designer and new media artist interested in exploring interventions and interaction related to bodily, spatial and temporal concepts. Trained in architecture, her approach is to place the viewer as a natural extension of the topographies she creates, to expand and stretch the reality we currently occupy.

18.00-21.00 Room 23, Collection Galleries, Main Floor

Framed by works by Henry Moore and Francis Bacon, Morphic Ontology is a performative audio-visual data installation blurring the lines between the digital and physical, exploring objects, data, materiality and the formation of social and cultural identity.

Through live performance and projections, Stewart will interrogate human-computer interaction and expression, artificial intelligence, computational media, and the semiotic space.

The promenading electric violin acts as a mediator between the works of Bacon and Moore, and between the artworks and the audience, drawing on sound associations and musical motifs to engage and provoke the encountered viewer-listener.

Artist: Gary Stewart
Performer (electric violin): Tansy Spinks
Production Assistant: Ade Balogun
Coder: Tyger Gill

Biographies

Gary Stewart is an artist working at the intersection of sound, moving image and computational creativity. He is part of pioneering sonic art and archive disruptor duo Dubmorphology alongside Trevor Mathison, and is Artist Associate at People's Palace Projects based at Queen Mary, University of London.

Tansy Spinks researches materiality and association, the everyday object and site-related sound as a live, performative practice.

Clore Studio, Main Floor

18.00-20.00

Rage Machine
Speak to Rage Machine, an AI developed from data, discussions with the Curator, and Tate Collective Producers to answer questions about the recent Women in Revolt exhibition.

Tate Britain Voices x Peckham Soup Kitchen
Immerse yourself in a soundscape built from the spoken conversations, observations and opinions of participants from Peckham Soup Kitchen, recorded at Tate Britain.

20.00-21.00

Electronic Life
Experience an AI entity built from thousands of AI image text prompts, produced in workshops by participants from Element.

Biography

Electronic Life is a research studio offering public programming, with a focus on working collaboratively with creative practitioners, industry partners, community groups, and arts organisations. Devised and led by Ed D'Souza and Sunil Manghani (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton) with Tom Savage (Imperial College), in partnership with Tate and the Alan Turing Institute.

18.00-21.00 Djanogly Café, Lower Floor

Experience abstract and open-ended audio-visual interventions with an overlapping of live performance, mixing, DJ sets and visuals. Merging folklore, music and storytelling, collaborators are invited to offer their truths and insights.

Biographies

Elijah Maja is a British-Nigerian artist and researcher from London. Maja's practice uses sound, still and moving images as grounds for contemplation. With a background in research, Maja collects and interrogates material across a range of disciplines, investigating how space and quotidian life meld to inform grounds for ritual processes.

SCATTSMAN is an artist, researcher and philosopher born, raised and based in East London. His work centres around self and hyper-local documentation through photography, moving image, drawing painting, sculpture and installation.

18.00-21.00 Story Space, Lower Floor

Sketchy Collections is an AI-driven image search tool that makes it possible to explore select museum collections by drawing a picture. The tool analyses the sketch, predicting text descriptions, then finds the top match across a range of collection databases using object tags or keywords. It makes both cultural heritage and AI technology more visible, accessible, and fun!

Biography

Polo Sologub is a data scientist, developer and designer with a focus on machine learning and human-computer interaction. Currently working as an AI Software Engineer for the Creative Computing Institute at UAL, they are especially interested in archives and collections and how to use creative technologies to open them up in engaging ways.

18.00-21.00 Taylor Digital Studio, Lower Floor

Interact directly with the machine learning software developed by the Creative Computing Institute as part of the Transforming Collections research project, now being used by partner museums and galleries across the UK to explore their collections in new ways.

About

The Creative Computing Institute at the University of the Arts, London, works at the intersection of creativity and computational technologies, exploring the technology shaping our world and preparing a new generation of talent to shape it.

The Museum x Machine x Me programme aims to share some of the practice research insights and findings generated by the 3-year project, Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage, led Professor susan pui san lok, Director of the University of the Arts London (UAL) Decolonising Arts Institute, in collaboration with the UAL and Creative Computing Institute and Tate, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Programme of Events

Conference
2-3 October, Tate Modern

Late
4 October, Tate Britain

Practice Research Residency Display
2-6 October, Tate Modern

Practice Research Residency Archive Display & Film Screening
5 October, Tate Modern

The in conversation event with Keith Piper & Anjalie Dalal-Clayton will include BSL Interpretation.

If there are any specific access adjustments you require in order to attend this event, please email ContactTransformingCollections@arts.ac.uk

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