Jazz as Social Machine
Investigating the human complexities at the border between AI and jazz improvisation
The WSI group for Social and Embodied AI responds to the human and social challenges raised by universal networking through the Web and the associated growth of machine learning and other automated processes, known popularly under labels such as “AI” and “the Internet of Things.”
Our aim is to mobilize scholarship and action across the arts, humanities and social sciences. We wish to create a research ecology in which, for example, computer scientists will work with politics experts, electrical engineers with designers and music scholars with mathematicians.
Research areas include AI and immersive media, The cultural history of the Web and AI, AI art and musical improvisation algorithms as social machines
Transforming Creativity Research Group
Research on transformations in cultural and creative economies.
Archaeologies of Media and Technology (AMT)
An office for media theory and speculative practice in art & design.