Deep Blue: Man + Machine

“An immersive showcase that delves into the profound relationship between human creativity and cutting-edge artificial intelligence,” says the press blurb. “This extraordinary event is set to captivate audiences with a fusion of art, technology, and innovation.”

Effectively it’s a three-hour mini-festival cum showcase of technology as art that also provides a networking opportunity for practitioners, would-be investors and the techno-curious. At base the MORROW collective has created 360° Digital Art Show with live dancers; it uses ToDA’s stereo sound and vision experience to showcase the possibilities and profound impact of advanced technology and “blur the lines between the virtual and the tangible”.

There’s also Metaverse VR Experience “where digital and physical worlds seamlessly merge”, a curators’ tour with Q&A, a workshop by MORROW collective on Curating Digital Art, and a series of NFT drops. Artists featured include Audrey Miller, Gary Cartlidge, Glass Crane, Hipworth, Jake-Andrew, Lamia Eda Kula, Martha Fiennes, Stanislav Bartnikas, Tomás Mujica Pérez, and Zam.

The title, incidentally, riffs on IBM’s chess-playing supercomputer from the 19080s, the first to defeat a human. It was the first computer to win a game against a human. As Morrow puts it, “this exhibition comprises artwork that symbolises the vastness of intelligence between machine and man and what that means for our future … Artworks also explore the emotion of the colour blue, which commands power and authority and can embody calmness, stability and strength”

There are shows at 10am and 2pm, repeated on 27 August.