Join us for the next instalment of our Online Academic Lecture Series with speaker Professor Jennifer Walshe, Fellow & Tutor in Music and Professor of Composition, with her talk, 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music.

In this talk, Jennifer Walshe deconstructs the idea of AI as “a singular phenomenon”, advocating for a multi-dimensional approach to looking at art and music made with artificial intelligence. Delving into the weird and wild world of AI, from “AI is Fan Fiction” to “AI is Relational Aesthetics”, Walshe calls for increased engagement with the technology concluding;

“…We users, we humans, must demand a stake in these networks, because we will be working alongside them, and we need more involvement in them than tiny context windows permit. We owe this to every being on the planet, and to the planet itself. Do we want to interact with a virtual teddy with preloaded answers, or encounter a model of bear consciousness? Can we think much, much weirder? If AI is to be more than the transitional object to turbocharged exploitation, bias and even, possibly, extinction, we need to get involved. To paraphrase Donna Haraway, we need to ‘shut up and train’.”

This talk will be hosted by Senior Research Fellow & College Lecturer in Music, Dr Thomas Hyde.

If you would like to join the live online lecture or receive a link to a recording of the talk, please register using the form below. Please note that if you are not an alumnus of the College, you must use this form to register instead.