Long play: Rob Watson & John Coster, the DIY-DMU Podcast team based at Leicester Media School, De Montfort University, interview the Art-AI Festival team and participants at Highcross
Rob Watson and John Coster, the duo behind the popular DIY-DMU Podcast, present their ‘on tour’ interview with the Art-AI Festival team and some of the participants in Anna Fuste’s PaperCubes workshops that ran at Highcross. They discuss the background and focus of the Festival, the different perspectives of the organisers on AI and its future impacts, and find out what the children (10 years old) and head teacher from the Sandfield Close Primary School think about their experiences of its applications.
http://robwatsonmedia.net/diy-dmu-podcast-016-art-ai-festival/
Interviewees:
Chris Tyrer, Digital Arts Manager at Phoenix
Amrit and Dylan, students at Sandfield Close Primary School, Leicester
Mrs Eammes, head teacher at Sandfield Close Primary School, Leicester
Luba Elliott, independent AI-arts curator and researcher
Anna Fuste, researcher at MIT Medialab
Tracy Harwood, Professor of Digital Culture at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University