Featuring five inspirational artistic projects

As part of the 2023 Scottish AI Summit The New Real announces five inspirational AI Artists who have been funded to explore the uncanny interplay of humans and machines, and the social implications of recent developments in AI. In 2023, The New Real is working with five artists to illuminate the ways emerging technology impacts on life at a profound level.

 Each artist has been awarded a The New Real 2023 Development Grant which enables the artists to each investigate the entanglements of people, data, machines and environments and to develop multi-sensory exploration of possible futures. Each of the five artists tackle an urgent challenge for our times: grappling with the implications of artificial superintelligence; community-centred approaches to machine learning; giving voice to unheard voices in historic data; sensing lost loved ones in small datasets; and breaking open the 'black box' of AI.

 As part of this year’s Scottish AI Summit each artist will present an inspirational talk on the ways artists can push creative boundaries with AI, and how AI can be enriched or challenged by the Arts. The winner of the full Art Commission will be announced in March 2023.