Research Fellow Dr Justin Hunt (Co-PI Unlearning AI) was invited to the Whitechapel Gallery in London Friday 6 November to join a panel of artists, critics, and AI researchers for the AICA UK & Whitechapel series “Labour of Love.” AICA UK is one of the UK’s professional bodies for art writers and curators. With Whitechapel Gallery they have led a series of panels exploring the changing landscape of art writing to develop new policies to support of artists, writers, and scholars.
The closed session, titled “The Future of Writing and AI,” began with a tour of the current exhibition, Cecilia Vicuña: Living Threads, and culminated with an exciting discussion exploring current understanding and practice with AI tools, how we navigate as teachers, editors, and publishers in this landscape, and how we seek to innovate with emerging technologies, recognising their/our embeddedness in power structures we may be seeking to dismantle.
The group will meet again to further their thinking and support the development of new policies to ensure intellectual property and creative development are enabled for art writers, critics, and scholars as we continue to learn with emerging technologies. Collectively written documentation will be distributed through AICA and Whitechapel websites in the coming months.