Oonagh Murphy

@oonaghtweets.bsky.social

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Work at the intersection of AI and Culture - BRAID Responsible AI Fellow at Arts Council England. Turing Fellow. Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at Goldsmiths. www.oonaghmurphy.com

Key Trend 01 Embracing contemporary culture to develop new audiences Collections provide us with a unique link to the past, but to be interesting to the average visitor, they must also provide a link to the present. Visitors want to know how a museum and its collection are relevant to them today. While in New York I came across a number of interesting events, programmes and exhibitions that demonstrated the contemporary relevance of museums and their collections, for this report I have selected three case studies which demonstrate that this approach requires vision rather than infinite resources.
Picture of a stage in the middle of the library, set up for a gig, with people sitting reading.
Image shows the MUNCH museum building in front of big blue sky
Image of a interactive billboard - with an image of Edvard Munch painting The Scream and a weather forecast saying it is -2 degrees
We are excited to commission five UK-based artists or artist groups to create artworks that explore new ways to think about today’s AI and the futures we want work in responsible AI to help us build. All that is needed is a clear engagement with responsible AI; it is not required that AI technology be used in the art making process. The aim of these commissions is to: encourage artists to enrich and expand the responsible AI ecosystem by making artworks that help us more wisely respond to present realities and near future horizons of AI demonstrate how art can critique and improve responsible AI tools, methods and approaches in creative and engaging ways inspire and empower members of the public to better understand, engage with and inform responsible AI development.
Picture of the sign for the national gallery with the moon in the background
English cover of the report