Art & Tech: Protecting artists and enabling creativity

How are artists and rightsholders navigating the challenges presented by AI, and how is AI informing artists’ practices? What models can we draw on to help us navigate these challenges, and what principles should be upheld?

The rapid evolution of AI technologies has brought artists’ rights into sharp focus, and raised existential questions about creativity and ownership. Exploring how artists and creative practitioners are engaging with AI through their work, and what the wider implications of AI on artists’ rights may be, this panel will examine how we can maintain artists’ rights as new technologies develop.

Reserve your place now for an exploration of art, tech, and the future of creativity.

Panellists: Gordon Cheung, Artist; Serpentine Gallery Creative AI Lab; Bernadine Bröcker Wieder, CEO Arcual; Reema Selhi, Head of Policy and International, DACS

Chaired by Fi Churchman, ArtReview

The capacity of the event is 40 seats. If you don't make it to the event, there will be a recording available to share.

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Speakers:

Gordon Cheung

Born in 1975 in London to Chinese parents, contemporary multi-media artist Gordon Cheung has developed an innovative approach to making art, which blurs virtual and actual reality to reflect on the existential questions of what it means to be human in civilisations with histories written by victors. Cheung raises questions and critiques the effects of global capitalism, its underlying mechanisms of power on our perception of identity, territory and sense of belonging. These narratives are refracted through the prisms of culture, mythology, religion, and politics into dreamlike spaces of urban surreal worlds that are rooted in his in-between identity.Cheung graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 1998 from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and earned his Masters of Fine Arts in 2001 from the Royal College of Art in London. Select solo shows include Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall UK, The Light that Burns Twice as Bright, Cristea Gallery, London UK, Here Be Dragons, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK and New Order Vanitas, Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, FL, USA. His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the Whitworth Art Museum in Manchester, Royal College of Art in London, and the British Museum, amongst others. He lives and works in London.

Bernadine Bröcker Wieder

A prominent thought leader in the art and tech community, Bernadine is the CEO of Arcual, a technology company building the next generation of digital infrastructure for the art world. Bernadine has a track record of successful entrepreneurial ventures, including Vastari, a cloud-based platform to connect museums, producers and collectors for international exhibition collaborations, and Vastari Labs, a museum NFT consultancy. Bernadine co-organised the first Christie’s Art+Tech Summit in 2018 and has facilitated blockchain proof of concepts with Everledger since 2016. She is a member of PAIAM, AWITA, and the Worshipful Company of Art Scholars, and is regularly featured in media outlets including Apollo, BBC, Rolling Stone, and more for her expertise.ning for over 8 years.

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