Truth in the age of A.I.
Running time: 16.00 – 18.00
Join FACT for a special event as part of the British Science Festival, where multimedia artist Rachel Maclean will discuss truth and authenticity in the age of AI with FACT’s Director, Dr Nicola Triscott.
Rachel Maclean has spent the last decade showcasing her groundbreaking work in galleries, museums, film festivals and on television. Working across a variety of media, including video, digital, print, sculpture, and VR, she makes complex and layered works that reference politics, fairy tales, pop culture, contemporary media, and more. She has showcased her work extensively, both in the UK and internationally, garnering critical acclaim in the fields of film and visual art. Her major solo exhibitions include Tate Britain and National Gallery, London; Arsenal Contemporary, New York, as well as group shows at Somerset House and the V&A, London, National Gallery of Prague and Science Gallery Singapore. Maclean represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2017 and her biggest commission to date, upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop, is on permanent display at Jupiter Artland, Scotland.
Dr Nicola Triscott is a cultural leader, curator and researcher specialising in the intersections of art, science, technology and society. She is Director/CEO of FACT Liverpool, a major UK centre for digital and screen arts, internationally recognised for groundbreaking commissions and critically engaged exhibitions. Previously, Nicola was the founding Director of Arts Catalyst (1994-2019), dedicated to ambitious artists’ commissions and cross-disciplinary art/science projects. From 2017 to 2019, she was a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Westminster. As curator and scholar, Nicola examines art’s engagement with science, technology and ecology. Recent research focuses on the responses of cultural institutions to the societal impacts of technology, critical engagement with AI and genetic technologies, and digitally enabled storytelling approaches to biopolitics and identity.
Image Credit: Rachel Maclean, DUCK (2023). Film still. Courtesy of the artist
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