FRIDAY/SHIFT EXCHANGE
FRIDAY/SHIFT EXCHANGE
FRIDAY/SHIFT EXCHANGE
Join leading AI thinkers for a day of talks, interviews and creative interaction
A full day of day of talks, interviews and creative interactions. Join the conversation.
Industry freelancers can access £40 tickets for SHIFT EXCHANGE on Friday. To receive the discount code, please email boxoffice@roh.org.uk
A full day of day of talks, interviews and creative interactions. Join the conversation.
Industry freelancers can access £40 tickets for SHIFT EXCHANGE on Friday. To receive the discount code, please email boxoffice@roh.org.uk
Tim and Sarah Bunting
FRIDAY/SHIFT EXCHANGE
Read more about the panelists and wider festival with our digital programme.
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
10.50 - 11.10 – Jason Baldridge – Expanding the Possible: Human Creativity in the Age of Generative AI
11.10 - 11.30 – Anna Ridler – Creativity and AI
11.30 - 12.00 – Break
12.00 - 12.20 – Jonathan 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 - 14.50 – Shannon Vallor –Through the Looking Glass: AI Mirrors, Imagination and Our Fragile Bond with the World
14.50 - 15.10 – Ollie 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 - 16.50 – Cliff Fluet – From Panic to Practice: Real Evidence, Real Tools, Real Creative Confidence
16.50 - 17.10 – Jocelyn Burnham – My Most Emotional Moments in AI (And What They Taught Me)
17.10 - 17.30 – Karen Palmer – From Bias to Agency: Rewriting the Future of AI
17.30 - 18.00 – Closing remarks by Netia Jones and Tom Service
Performers and programme subject to change.
Background
The Royal Opera’s Associate Director Netia Jones curates a four-day festival exploring the shifting boundary between opera and technology. The focus for the first festival is the ever-growing world of artificial intelligence. What can AI offer creatives? And what can creatives offer the world in the age of AI?
Events for this inaugural festival include four EARLY SHIFT/LATE SHIFT sessions featuring performances and presentations from a diverse range of practitioners, the SHIFT EXCHANGE, a day of conversation with leading AI thinkers, and PLAY SHIFT, a relaxed day for all that encourages immersion and interaction. Alongside the four festival days, the Linbury Foyer will be open daily and free to the public and will feature exciting exhibitions and displays offering further interactive exploration.
Featured artists include legendary American experimental composer and improvisor George E. Lewis with soprano Juliet Fraser, Alexander Whitley Dance Company, vocal artist and AI innovator Harry Yeff (Reeps100) with soprano Patricia Auchterlonie, experimental composer Jennifer Walshe with vocal ensemble EXAUDI and AI sound artists Dadabots, composer Paola Prestini, AI sound artist and research scientist Yaboi Hanoi and transdisciplinary artist Stephanie Dinkins and many more.
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