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Creative IP workshop
09 November 2021, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm
This workshop will bring together experts from a diverse range of disciplines to identify issues facing the creative sector.
Event Information
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- Invitation Only
Organiser
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UCL Art Futures, a collaboration between UCL Innovation & Enterprise, Faculty of Laws and Slade School of Fine Art
Overview
Ever evolving technology continues to raise critical and pressing questions concerning the creation, protection, and monetisation of creative works.
The workshop brings together leading experts from a diverse range of disciplines to identify, and narrow, specific issues facing the sector.
These issues will form the basis of the project’s next phase of work. This work will include the development of an interactive map showing the roles involved in all aspects of new art genres. We also plan to develop a prototype platform that allows contributors to a given work to register their input.
With a focus on fair and equitable policies, we aim to identify potential mechanisms to advance systems for artists and the government’s ambition to place the UK "at the forefront of the AI and data revolution".
Background
In 2020, the 'AI & Art Futures' roundtable brought together the leading minds of the creative industries to identify mechanisms for leveraging the UK’s creative strength via AI’s transformational effect on society. This highlighted the emergent sector of arts and technologies, and the necessity for new thinking to meet the IP, copyright, and patent challenges. A report on the event can be downloaded from the AI for People & Planet website.
More recently, UCL’s Institute of Brand and Innovation Law and the UK Intellectual Property Office hosted a roundtable on 'AI and copyright: what next?'. This event explored whether the AI revolution requires existing copyright legislation to be reviewed and revised if it's not fit for purpose. A recording of this event is available on YouTube.
Date and time
This online event will be held on 9 November 2021, from 3pm to 5pm (GMT).
Photo: Mariana Visic, Slade Graduate Degree show, 2016
About the Speakers
Professor Stella Bruzzi
Dean, UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Stella, a Professor of Film, joined UCL in 2017. Her research is wide-ranging and her specialisms span documentary, representations of history, fashion and costume and Hollywood masculinity. Before moving to UCL she taught at the University of Warwick, and prior to that Royal Holloway, University of London. Her latest monograph is Approximation: Documentary, History and the Staging of Reality (Routledge, 2020). In 2013 she was made a Fellow of the British Academy.
Anna Donovan
Lecturer in Law, UCL Faculty of Laws
Anna’s work sits at the intersection of law, people and technology. Anna is a former corporate lawyer, qualified in England and Wales and also admitted to the New York bar. Her research focusses on organisational behaviour, governance and technology, with a particular expertise in distributed ledger technology. Anna is a member of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies and advises a broad range of industries on the subject. A key part of Anna’s work is exploring how interdisciplinary collaboration can be structured to support genuine innovation through new ways of learning, thinking and working. Anna is a co-founder of UCL Art Futures.
Kieren Reed
Director, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Kieren’s art research encompasses sculpture, public art, performance and installation, technology - from studies in form to the production of architectural structures. His art is most often linked to a process, place, site or a consideration of a space or situation. Through investigations that challenge making, materials, functionality, concepts of collaboration, and methodologies of de-authoring, Kieren creates generous artworks that further new knowledge in socially engaged and participation art practices. Kieren is a co-founder of UCL Art Futures.
Jo Townshend
Principal Partnerships Manager (Creative sectors), UCL Innovation & Enterprise
Jo’s work sits at the interface of academic research and industry. She's responsible for identifying and developing strategic partnerships, specialising in facilitating multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations with the performing, production and visual arts, museums, galleries and business. Before joining UCL she was a consultant for the creative industries and was the Founder Principal of a Studio School for the Creative Industries, delivering education partnership with industry. Jo is the chair of Contemporary Visual Arts Network London, Trustee of the Board for the De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill, and Trustee of the RSA Academies Trust. Jo is a co-founder of UCL Art Futures.