It was a pleasure to speak about "AI in the Gallery" alongside Dr Oonagh Murphy (Goldsmiths, Arts Council England) and Rachel Walker (Royal Academy) at REMIX Summit at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Excited to be at India Science Festival, where Payal and I are launching our Inclusive AI Lab. I'm also giving a keynote talk, "Creation or Curation? New Forms of Creativity in the Age of AI."
I was honored to speak on a panel about Dr Arora's new book, From Pessimism to Promise, alongside Profs Annette Markham, Bruce Mutsvairo, and Erik Stan.
At Dundee Design Festival, I co-curated an exhibit and workshop of Sebastian Schmieg's work, called The World Is Beautiful Again. I also spoke on a panel alongside Sebastian, Martin Zeilinger, and Sarah Cook.
Excited to share the findings from the practice-based research component of The Algorithmic Pedestal exhibit, published in Leonardo: "The Algorithmic Pedestal: a Practice-Based Study of Algorithmic & Artistic Curation."
Had the opportunity to participate in the Yale University-Paul Mellon Centre's Graduate Summer Programme: two incredible weeks of cultural reflection and artistic practice in London and Cape Town, South Africa.
Our article about Content Authenticity Initiative research, "Unmasking AI: Informing Authenticity Decisions by Labeling AI-Generated Content," has been published in ACM Interactions.
Thrilled that the BRAID UK team has selected our project, "CREA-TEC: Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives," for one of their 2024 fellowships.
Participated in a roundtable discussion at the University of Edinburgh Law Faculty called "Producing cross-disciplinary insights for diverse and inclusive design to AI in arts and fashion."
Spoke at "Protecting Creativity in the Age of AI" at Kings College London, alongside lawyers, technologists, regulators, unionists, and creatives to inform DCMS, DIST, and ACE's Generative AI policies.
Participated in BRAID UK's Generative AI Policy Summit (run by the University of Edinburgh, BBC, and the Ada Lovelace Institute), which will result in future-facing recommendations for the UK Department of Culture, Media, and Sport.
Our ACM ISS paper, "Using Online Videos as the Basis for Developing Design Guidelines: A Case Study of AR-Based Assembly Instructions," has been published.
Spoke about Adobe's Content Authenticity Initiative at the Oxford Generative AI Summit on the "Multi-stakeholder responses to deepfakes and synthetic media" panel.
In Milan for the International Association of Design Research Societies conference, where I'm sharing two papers: "For Who Page? TikTok creators' algorithmic dependencies" and "Decolonizing Creativity in the Digital Era."
Shared my presentation, "How do algorithmic platforms shape creative practices and processes?" at the Global Perspectives on Platforms, Labor & Social Reproduction conference at the University of Amsterdam.
My chapter, "Globalized Creative Economies: Rethinking Local Craft, Provenance, and Platform Design" is included in the newly-released Feminist Futures of Work, an open access book published by Amsterdam University Press.
This term, I am a visiting researcher at Aarhus University, where I'll be spending time with researchers at the Centre for Digital Creativity and the Digital Aesthetics Research Centre while conducting fieldwork at Olafur Eliasson's studio as part of EER.
Excited to share the volume of proceedings from our ICCC'22 workshop, The Role of Embodiment in the Perception of Human & Artificial Creativity, which also includes our paper, "Exploring Embodiment’s Role in Creativity with Live Artistic Performances."
Presented my research, "Algorithms' Impact on Human Artistic Creativity," at the Doctoral Symposium for the 10th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics, and X (xCoAx).
Hosted "The Role of Embodiment in Human & Artificial Creativity" two-day workshop at the International Conference of Computational Creativity, together with Dr. Caterina Moruzzi.
"Towards Better User Studies in Computer Graphics and Vision" is out on arXiv; in it, Aaron Hertzmann, Zoya Bylinskii, Stefanie Hutka, Yile Zhang, and I share best practices for user research in the computer graphics field.
Excited to share our paper, "In the eye of the beholder: A viewer-defined conception of online visual creativity," now published in New Media & Society.
Our paper, "Larger visual changes compress time: The inverted effect of asemantic visual features on interval time perception" has been published in PLOS ONE.
Dr. Caterina Moruzzi, Dr. Aaron Hertzmann, and I are thrilled to have received the University of Konstanz's Intersectoral Cooperation grant for our project, "The Role of Embodiment in the Perception of Human and Artificial Creativity."
Excited to begin work on our project, "Algorithmic Influence on Creative Labour in the Global South," which has been funded by an OII-Dieter Schwarz Foundation grant.
Grateful to have received generous funding for our project, "AI Futures and the Curated Visitor Experience," through the Minderoo-Oxford AI Challenge Fund (Large).
Guest lectured for Dr. Niloufar Salehi's Interface Design & Development course at the University of California, Berkeley alongside longtime collaborator Dr. Stefanie Hutka.
Thrilled to have joined the Board of Trustees for Arts at the Old Fire Station, an Oxford-based arts organization that supports people experiencing homelessness.
Honored to have been elected to the Board of Trustees for Eastside Educational Trust, a London-based non-profit that fosters creative experiences for children in underserved communities.
We organized a collection of essays for the Journal of Cultural Anthropology, titled Technology and Anthropological Ways of Knowing, including a piece on disability + AI that I co-authored: "What Can Tech Learn from Crip Futurity?"
