Video footage from Open Research day on 17 May 2025 at Battersea Arts Centre, feat. Natalia Korczakowska, Teatr Studio, Pricilla Lee, Sung Im Her and her dance company, and filmed by Google DeepMind Productions.

Work by Richard Evans with Ben Wedin, Piotr Mirowski, Reinald Kim Amployo, Richard Galt, Duncan Williams, Rida Qadri, Sian Gooding, Lucia Lopez Rivilla, João G. M. Araújo, Jaume Sanchez Elias, Erin Drake Kajioka, Edward Grefenstette, Emily Conn, Satinder Singh Baveja, Laura Rimell, Shakir Mohamed.

So, are you into writing? Then register your interest for Fabula at: deepmind.google.com/frontiers/fa...

We are inviting further writers to try Fabula and see if it is useful for learning, structuring ideas, and supporting human creativity. On the video: playwright Natalia Korczakowska, Artistic Director of STUDIO teatrgaleria in Warsaw, discusses her creative process.

We ran many workshop studies with our prototype, sought critical feedback from diverse industry experts on subjects ranging from the writing process, narratology, screen production, and cultural localisation, who discussed their creative practice and commented on AI ethics and on the Fabula app.

We are a small team passionate about interactive fiction, theatre, theatrical improvisation and computational creativity, and have been developing Fabula using principles of participatory AI, taking critical feedback from the industry in and integrating it within our process.

Fabula is not a story generator – it is a tool to empower a writer as they go through the creative process of exploring their story, by giving them coherent AI-based suggestions that allow them to iterate on versions of their stories, characters and story arc.

Fabula is a co-creation tool that enables writers to quickly review, revise, and iterate on a story plan and script. We crafted detailed instructions to build a story's structure, based on classical narratology, and power the app using Google DeepMind’s latest version of Gemini.

Research prototype, early access announcement and participatory AI! I am really excited to invite you to try Fabula, an experimental app designed to serve as a writing tool for screenwriters and playwrights of all skill levels. We invite critical feedback: read the thread below!
youtu.be/YH7sZ2GN_m0

Really honoured to have participated, alongside Rida Qadri, to this @britishcouncil.bsky.social report on exploring the importance of artists, cultural organisations, and creative industries to technological advancement.
www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...

Visionary theatre director Natalia Korczakowska from Teatr Studio invites you to witness her open research and rehearsal of “AlphaGo_Lee: Theory of Sacrifice”. Extremely lucky to join her cast of creatives to discuss limits, ethics and potential of LLMs in writing.

bac.org.uk/whats-on/alp...

With gratitude to Google Research/Arts & Culture/DeepMind, Katherine Heller, Andrew Smart, Kory Mathewson, Chelsey Fleming, Pamela Peter-Agbia, Eva Kozanecka, Xiao Ma and Shakir Mohamed, and above all Aroussiak Gabriellan, Farbod Mehr, Fuchsia Hart, Huma Gupta, Morehshin Allahyari, Pamela Karimi.

We just published and presented our findings in a sociotechnical AI research paper at Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2025): “AI and Non-Western Art Worlds: Reimagining Critical AI Futures through Artistic Inquiry and Situated Dialogue", jointly authored by Rida Qadri, Remi Denton and yours truly.

Using the Persian Gulf as a case, we worked with 3 visual artists and 3 experts from cultural institutions, engaging in a longitudinal study and dialogue, moving away from “datasets” to curated archives, and showcasing how local art communities can redesign AI to be more culturally-relevant.

Generative AI tools used in art production should be evaluated by the broader art world of artists, art historians and curators, to integrate culturally-specific critique and to re-imagine these tools to suit the artists’ needs.
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Interdisciplinary CfP:
"Robots on Stage: Performative Practices, Experimentation and Human–Machine Social Interaction"
@ Social Robotics ICSR'25
📅☕ 18 April (submission)
🇮🇹🏛️ Naples, Italy
🤖🎉 10-12 September (conference)
icsr2025.eu/special-sess...

So far, 2,135 people have responded to the poll Søren and I posted a few days ago. Of those, 94.4% replied “Yes” to being interested in officially presenting accepted @neuripsconf.bsky.social papers in Europe. (1/7)

Mindfix and Friendly Fire are the brainchildren of the fantastic artist and filmmaker Manuel Flurin Hendry, who just defended his PhD at ZHdK on AI chatbots and the history of phrenology and the science of emotions.
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Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, die Mobiliar, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Speech Graphics, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, DIZH, Ernst Göhner Stiftung and ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.

Produced by Silicon Stories. Team: Meredith Thomas, Paulina Zybinska, Norbert Kottmann, Linus Jacobsson, martin fröhlich, Patrick Karpiczenko, Florian Bruggisser, Piotr Mirowski, Stella Speziali, Domenico Ferrari and Gunter Loesel.

Our superior algorithms heal any psychological issue in just 8 minutes - an efficiency gain of over 20000%. The audience can now test this groundbreaking invention at Kulturhaus Helferei.
AI can fix everything! So why not fix your feelings?
#ai #performance #solutionism #satire #theatre #zurich

Uncomfortably excited to announce that I joined the board of Swedish startup Mindfix, revolutionising mental healthcare through #AI #chatbot #therapy. Currently raising seed VC round 4 series D capital at Kulturhaus Helferei in Zürich.
www.friendlyfire.art