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Watch: AI & Creativity: Protecting Creators in the Age of AI

At the recent AI Fringe, part of the UK’s AI summit, DACS convened a panel exploring the potential impacts of AI models on creators and their IP rights.

• 3 November 2023, 2-3:30pm
• British Library, Elliot Room of the Knowledge Centre, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB

Artist's Spaces: Making Place - Artists and creative ecologies

How can artists, organisations and local communities work together to nurture sustainable creative ecologies?

• 30 November 2022, 5-6pm
• Instagram Live

Artist's Spaces: Voices from the Factory

Explore the legacy of Warhol’s Factory and its wide-reaching influence on contemporary artistic practice then and now.

• 16 November 2022, 5-6pm
• Zoom

Artist's Spaces: Innocence Lost - Johnnie Shand Kydd on photographing the YBAs in the 1990s

Honest and unfiltered, Johnnie Shand Kydd’s photographs of the YBAs on their trajectory to success in the 1990s take you back to a time before the art world made headlines. Artimage speaks to the photographer to find out what makes these images so special.

• 8 November 2022

Artist's Spaces: Nicholas Sinclair on photographing artists' studios

Nicholas Sinclair has been photographing British artists in their studios from the 1990s to the present day. The impeccably composed portraits offer a glimpse into the work and lives of the individuals behind today's greatest modern masterpieces. We talked in-depth to the photographer about his portraits, which are available to license through Artimage.

• 7 November 2022

Artist's Spaces: Growing Creative Communities

How can artist-centred organisations encourage creative communities to flourish and interact on a global stage whilst responding to local needs.

• 2 November 2022, 5-6pm
• Zoom

Artist Narratives - Lindsey Mendick & Paloma Proudfoot in conversation with Ferren Gipson

From feminine arts to feminist art: reclaiming the history of ceramic arts.

• 28 July 2022, 5-6pm
• Online

Capturing the iconic London 2012 Olympic Games, by Simon Roberts

This week marks 10 years since the Olympics games came to London. In one of the greatest sporting spectacles of modern times, the now iconic games saw 10,000 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees participated across London and the wider United Kingdom. Artist Simon Roberts was there to capture this moment, having been granted unique photographic access by The International Olympic Committee to create an alternative, artistic take focusing on the cultural, economic, and political vistas that are often overlooked in the excitement of the events.

• 27 July 2022

Artist Narratives - Rose English in conversation with Jean Wainwright

Exploring the lifespan of an artwork, from the archive to performance.

• 21 July 2022, 5-6pm
• Online

Artist Narratives - Alia Syed in conversation with Gilane Tawadros

A conversation on storytelling, time and memory within themes of culture, diaspora and location.

• 14 July 2022, 5-6pm
• Online

Artist Narratives: Penny Slinger - I SPEAK WHAT I SEE

Penny Slinger uses a variety of media including photography, film, paint and photo-montage to explore the human journey through life and time. Perhaps best known for her surrealist interpretations of the female, Slinger uses her own experiences to look at connections between eroticism, mysticism, feminism and art. DACS selected Slinger’s I Speak What I See, from her Mouthpieces series to lead our Artists Narratives series. Here Penny shares the story behind her seminal series. Created in the early 70s, the series still profoundly resonates today.

• 12 July 2022

Sustainable Futures - Art + Environment

Exploring the connection between the legacies of colonialism and the climate emergency. Artists Alberta Whittle and Ingrid Pollard in conversation with Ekow Eshun.

• 8 June 2022, 5-6pm
• Online