British Council: “From telling stories that seed future breakthroughs to diversifying AI datasets, artists reimagine what technologies can be, and who they can be for. This publication creates an international evidence base for this argument. 56 leaders in art and technology have offered 40 statements, spanning 20 countries and 5 continents. As a collection, they articulate artists, the cultural sector and creative industries as catalysing progressive innovation with cultural diversity, human values, and community at its core.
Responses include research leads from Adobe, Lelapa AI and Google, who detail the contribution artists make to the human-centric development of high-growth technologies. UK institutions like Serpentine and FACT, and LAS Art Foundation in Germany show cultural organisations are essential spaces for progressive artist-led R&D. Directors of TUMO Centre for Creative Technologies in Armenia, and Diriyah Art Futures in Saudi Arabia highlight education across art and technology as a source of skills for the future. Leaders of African Digital Heritage in Kenya and the Centre for Historical Memory in Colombia demonstrate how community ownership of technologies for heritage preservation increases network resilience. Artists such as Xu Bing in China and Libby Heaney in the UK present art as a site for public demystification of complex technologies, from space satellites to quantum computing.
The perspectives presented in this publication serve as a resource for policy making and programme development spanning art and technology. Global in scope, they offer case studies that highlight why innovation needs artists, on both a national and international scale…(More)”.
