SHIFT/EXCHANGE
Talks, interviews and creative interaction centred around AI. Discover the creatives, researchers and experts from SHIFT/EXCHANGE.
SHIFT EXCHANGE is a one‑day deep dive into the ideas, tensions and creative breakthroughs shaping the future of artificial intelligence in the arts. Bringing together international artists, researchers and thinkers, this dynamic programme explores how AI is transforming creativity and how human imagination can reshape the technologies we build. Through talks, provocations and personal reflections, SHIFT EXCHANGE offers audiences an inspiring, wide-ranging and thought‑provoking exploration of the rapidly shifting boundary between human and machine creativity.
Programme timings
10.00 - 10.20 – Introduction by Netia Jones and Tom Service
10.20 - 10.50 – George E Lewis – A Personal History of AI
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10.50 - 11.10 – Jason Baldridge – Expanding the Possible: Human Creativity in the Age of Generative AI
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11.10 - 11.30 – Anna Ridler – Creativity and AI
11.30 - 12.00 – Break
12.00 - 12.20 – Jonathan Reus – Between Data and Breath
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12.20 - 12.50 – Rebecca Fiebrink – How Can AI Be Useful to Musicians
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Thor Magnusson – Performing Music with AI
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12.50 - 13.10 – Stephanie Dinkins – The Stories We Tell Our Machines
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13.10 - 13.30 – Kartini Ludwig + Caroline Pegram – The Rise of Creative & Cultural AI Models
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13.30 - 14.30 – Break
14.30 - 14.50 – Shannon Vallor –Through the Looking Glass: AI Mirrors, Imagination and Our Fragile Bond with the World
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14.50 - 15.10 – Oliver Bown – The Cultures of Commercial Music AI
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15.10 - 15.30 – Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre – Ubermarionette
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15.30 - 16.00 – Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Matthew Suttor & Company – I AM ALAN TURING — A Séance with the Machine
16.00 - 16.30 – Break
16.30 - 16.50 – Karen Palmer – From Bias to Agency: Rewriting the Future of AI
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16.50 - 17.10 – Jocelyn Burnham – My Most Emotional Moments in AI (And What They Taught Me)
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Francesca Sobande – Creativity Beyond 'AI'
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17.10 - 17.30 Cliff Fluet – From Panic to Practice: Real Evidence, Real Tools, Real Creative Confidence
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17.30 - 18.00 – Closing remarks by Netia Jones and Tom Service













