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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 2d

with @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social, BBC Responsible Innovation Centre, Arts and Humanities Research Council at @ukri.org

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 2d

This is a really exciting opportunity to surface whether, and to what extent, AI investments are delivering on their promise.

Reach out if you have any questions and please do share across your networks and pass on to anyone who you think might be interested.

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 2d

We're hiring at BRAID UK!

Exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to lead work around the social return on AI investment, working closely with @ewaluger.bsky.social and @shannonvallor.bsky.social

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...

Applications open. Closes 7 Nov, Interviews 9 Dec.

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 5d

St Cecilia's is a wonderful venue - this promises to be a great evening.

Made possible by Edinburgh College of Art and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 5d

Metal parts of the sculpture are connected to a computer model, making it possible to explore and examine the sound world by touch.

The work explores the feminist theory of the leaky body, inviting us to rethink the human body as fluid & amorphous, reconfiguring in response to its environment.

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 5d

Martin's BRAID project, Machining Sonic Identities, sees him work with St Cecilia's collection, imagining new ways for heritage sector to create innovative interfaces between AI & their collections. Here, Martin's built a digital model of instruments, people are not normally allowed to play.

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 5d

Leaky bodies and touchy software - a concert and exhibition opening featuring new music that explores instruments, bodies, software and hardware.

This new work from BRAID Fellow Martin Parker and Xenia Pestova is live at St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh, on Wednesday 15 October.

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 6d

In her project ‘Writing The Wrongs of AI’ (WWAI) @pipt.bsky.social explores creative ways to demonstrate the power that human words, poetics & writing might have in resisting the influence of artificial intelligence in the literary sphere & beyond.

Pip's reflections on the project:
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Page Against The Machine: On the Poetics of AI Refusal

This essay by artist and researcher Pip Thornton documents and debates some of the outputs of ‘Writing The Wrongs of AI’ (WWAI), a project which explored creative ways to demonstrate the power that hu...

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 6d

A short satirical play, 'Page Against the Machine', by BRAID Fellow @pipt.bsky.social & @Clare Duffy (Civic Digits C.I.C), will showcase at @byleaveswelive.bsky.social in Edinburgh on 6/7 Nov as part of this year's @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

Find out more/book here:
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Page Against The Machine

A comedy-drama about AI by Clare Duffy (Civic Digits Theatre Company) & Pip Thornton, brought to the SPL as part of the Being Human Festival

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 7d

Funded by Innovate UK, the team at Bournemouth University (Szilvia Ruszev, Maxine Gee, Xiaosong Yang and Tom Davis) join leads AIMICI.

Image courtesy of AIMICI.

More info: aimici.co.uk/innovate-uk-...

AIMICI Secures Innovate UK Bridge AI Funding to Develop Personalised AI Training for Film and TV Industry - AIMICI

AIMICI, in collaboration with Bournemouth University and with ScreenSkills as accreditation partner, has been awarded funding through Innovate UK's Bridge AI

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 7d

Brilliant to see BRAID Scoping project 'Shared-Posthuman Imagination: Human-AI Collaboration in Media Creation' outcomes moving forward via new funding. Coming soon: UK's 1st responsible AI e-learning course for Film&TV professionals. Congrats @ruszev.bsky.social
& team on industry implementation!

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 7d

The forum marks the last phase of @amsichani.bsky.social 's BRAID Fellowship on 'Responsible data, models & workflows: Responsible AI digital skills provision for the cultural heritage community' in collaboration with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 7d

Featuring: round tables & discussion on training provision for RAI in cultural heritage, challenges such as skills development, collections’ openness, infrastructure requirements & legal concerns, sector-wide policy making, & broader governance issues on AI systems within GLAM & research sector.

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 7d

New forum ‘Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum’ on Thu 6 Nov 2025, Senate House (hybrid) from BRAID Fellow @amsichani.bsky.social with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

Find out more/register here:
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BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage forum

This forum brings together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically.

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 7d

The work was commissioned as part of BRAID's exhibition 'Tipping Point: artist responses to AI', Edinburgh Art Festival, summer 2025. We're delighted to see Identity 2.0's fabulous zine take its place in the DAIR collection.

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to artists Identity 2.0, selected as the first guest zine to be included in the @dairinstitute.bsky.social Zine Library. 'Conversations about resistance and generative AI' can be downloaded here: zines.dair-institute.org/ai-z Image courtesy of the DAIR website.

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 13d

A nice companion piece to our new video reel about the exhibition, introducing the artists and their own reflections: vimeo.com/1123604736/f... with the wonderful @beverleyhood.bsky.social @esarahcook.bsky.social and @ewaluger.bsky.social

Tipping Point Highlights Video

Tipping Point is an exhibition of new Art Commissions by Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) presenting seven outstanding UK-based artists aimed at exploring…

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 13d

It's one month since we wrapped up Tipping Point: Artist Responses to AI, our exhibition featuring seven new artworks by artists from across the UK. Here BRAID community member Alasdair Milne offers his reflections on the exhibition in a new blog.

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Reflecting on Tipping Point: Artist Responses to AI

7 — 31 August 2025 | Inspace Gallery, EdinburghIn the summer of 2025, Bridging Responsible AI Divides staged an exhibition of newly commissioned artworks on the theme of Responsible AI by artist

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Michael Franklin @mcbfranklin.bsky.social · 15d

Great to see the 'Artificial intelligence for cultural heritage research' work included in BRAID's submission to the UN.

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations to the team of BRAID Researchers who have been cited in a recent report on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity published by the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights, Alexandra Xanthaki. Further details in the linked post by @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social

Caterina Moruzzi @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social · 18d

Delighted that my contribution and the submission with Kate Milner, Martin Parker, @kyrill.bsky.social, Anna-Maria Sichani and @paulawest.bsky.social as part of @braiduk.bsky.social are cited in the report on AI and creativity of the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights.
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr27r6h2

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations to the team of BRAID Researchers who have been cited in a recent report on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity published by the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights, Alexandra Xanthaki. Further details in the linked post by @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social

Caterina Moruzzi @caterinamoruzzi.bsky.social · 18d

Delighted that my contribution and the submission with Kate Milner, Martin Parker, @kyrill.bsky.social, Anna-Maria Sichani and @paulawest.bsky.social as part of @braiduk.bsky.social are cited in the report on AI and creativity of the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights.
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr27r6h2

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 20d

BRAID is funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) @ukri.org

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 20d

What an amazing project. Well done and congratulations to Pip and all the participants and collaborators on Writing the Wrongs of AI.

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 20d

You will also find also a link to Pip’s film of her play ‘Page Against the Machine’ which depicts the parody product launch of the LEX-9000 at the Edinburgh Book Festival - with the LEX-9000 being a spoof ‘automatic writing machine’ designed to alleviate the drudgery of creative writing.

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 20d

Published by @byleaveswelive.bsky.social, the piece reflects on how the saturation of current political & cultural economies by AI frustrates & complicates the evasive, subversive, & rebellious qualities of language - potentially disarming poetry & creative writing as tools of refusal.

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 20d

Fantastic new essay from BRAID Fellow @pipt.bsky.social who’s project, Writing the Wrongs of AI, collaborating with @edbookfest.bsky.social explores creative ways to demonstrate the power that human words, poetics & writing might have in resisting the influence of AI.

bit.ly/46oGcPr

Page Against The Machine: On the Poetics of AI Refusal

This essay by artist and researcher Pip Thornton documents and debates some of the outputs of ‘Writing The Wrongs of AI’ (WWAI), a project which explored creative ways to demonstrate the power that hu...

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