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 - 10.50George E Lewis – A Personal History of AI

10.50 - 11.10Jason Baldridge – Expanding the Possible: Human Creativity in the Age of Generative AI

11.10 - 11.30Anna RidlerCreativity and AI 

11.30 - 12.00 – Break

12.00 - 12.20Jonathan Reus – Between Data and Breath 

12.20 - 12.50 – Rebecca Fiebrink – How Can AI Be Useful to Musicians

Thor Magnusson – Performing Music with AI

12.50 - 13.10 – Stephanie Dinkins The Stories We Tell Our Machines 

13.10 - 13.30  – Kartini Ludwig + Caroline Pegram – The Rise of Creative & Cultural AI Models 

13.30 - 14.30 – Break

14.30 - 14.50Shannon Vallor –Through the Looking Glass: AI Mirrors, Imagination and Our Fragile Bond with the World

14.50 - 15.10Oliver Bown – The Cultures of Commercial Music AI 

15.10 - 15.30 – Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre – Ubermarionette

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 - 16.50Karen Palmer – From Bias to Agency: Rewriting the Future of AI

16.50 - 17.10Jocelyn Burnham – My Most Emotional Moments in AI (And What They Taught Me)

Francesca Sobande – Creativity Beyond 'AI'

17.10 - 17.30 Cliff Fluet – From Panic to Practice: Real Evidence, Real Tools, Real Creative Confidence 

17.30 - 18.00 – Closing remarks by Netia Jones and Tom Service

George Lewis
Jason Baldridge
Jonathan Reus
Rebecca Fiebrink
Thor Magnusson
Stephanie Dinkins
Kartini Ludwig
Caroline Pegram
Shannon Vallor
Oliver (Ollie) Bown
Karen Palmer
Jocelyn Burnham
Francesca Sobande
Cliff Fluet