AI, Curation and Cultural InfrastructuresFriday 13 November 2026, 17:00 – 18:45

Curating public encounters with AI: learning and participation in museums

  • Marc BartoSenior Digital Producer Victoria and Albert Museum, London

As AI becomes increasingly embedded within creative practice, how can museums create spaces for critical reflection and public participation? Drawing on public programmes at the V&A, this talk explores museums as civic infrastructures for AI literacy and collective learning, enabling audiences to encounter AI through making, discussion and experimentation.

Panel

AI, Curation and Cultural Infrastructures

Friday 13 November 2026, 17:00 – 18:45

Chair: Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás — UCL Computational Media Research

AI, Curation and Cultural Infrastructures examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping the conditions, practices, and infrastructures of contemporary cultural production and curatorial work. The panel brings together perspectives on the ways AI systems intervene in processes of selection, classification, interpretation, mediation, and knowledge production, while also asking how their underlying computational infrastructures transform cultural institutions themselves. Rather than approaching AI simply as a new curatorial tool, the panel considers the material, political, and epistemological conditions through which these technologies operate, including data, platforms, labour, energy, and systems of governance. It explores how curators and cultural producers might critically engage with AI while developing alternative forms of curatorial agency, institutional responsibility, and building the digital commons.

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