Tipping Point: Artist Responses to AI

Tipping Point: Artist responses to AI

Tipping Point opened at Inspace as part of Edinburgh Art Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2025.

The exhibition ran from 7-31 August 2025 and explored what artists can do to help us more wisely respond to the present realities and near-future horizons of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Following an open funding call, BRAID commissioned new artworks from Louise Ashcroft, Julie Freeman, Wesley Goatley, Identity 2.0, Rachel Maclean, Kiki Shervington-White, and Studio Above & Below.

Commissioned artworks, ranged from digital installations to sculptural interventions, zines and comedy sketches, addressing themes that reimagine AI uptake, inspire activism and resilience, and showcase artistic creativity in the field. These themes align with BRAID’s mission to build public awareness, break down structural barriers in AI, and reimagine responsible AI perspectives and practices, providing a platform for artists to share their visions and for audiences to reflect on the role of AI in our society.

Each artwork presented new ways of thinking about today’s AI, the futures we want and the communities needed to build it.

Find out more about the exhibition:

Tipping Point: Artist Responses to AI – Inspace

View the full image gallery on Flickr.

This art commissioning programme was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and delivered by BRAID in partnership with Inspace at the Institute for Design Informatics, with support from Edinburgh Art Festival and Better Images of AI.

A panel of artists take part in a discussion during Tipping Point in 2025.

A white projector screen displaying a film in a dimly lit room, with four white pouffes in front of it.

Image of artworks from the Tipping Point exhibition. Credit Chris Scott.

About the Artists and Artworks

Identity 2.0 | AI-Z

Identity 2.0 is a creative studio imagining better digital futures. Their work explores inclusive stories about our relationship to technology. Their Tipping Point piece, AI-Z, created two new zines and involving working with four diverse activist groups using zine-making as a tool to rethink AI’s place in society through intersectional resistance and play, as well as to document the collective making process. About Identity 2.0 Identity 2.0 is a creative ...

Julie Freeman

Julie Freeman works with natural living systems and emergent technologies. Her large scale installations, sound sculptures and online artworks have, since the early 1990s, pioneered her conceptual and critical approach to working with sound and real-time data as living and malleable art materials. Julie has shown work at leading institutions including the V&A, the ICA, Modern Art Oxford, the Barbican and the Science Museum, as well as internationally. She has ...

Kiki Shervington-White

Kiki is a visual artist and multimedia storyteller based out of Birmingham. She has a degree in Design for Art Direction from the University of the Arts, and over five years of experience in content creation for TV, film, and social media. Specialising in visual communication, Kiki uses her experience of public engagement in science, cultural organising and creative placemaking to explore the intersection of art direction and interaction design ...

Louise Ashcroft | Real Stupidity

Louise Ashcroft's Tipping Point piece, Real Stupidity is a response to AI developed with a collective of comedians, a comedy-aligned artist, a videographer and a tech researcher. Speaking fiction to power, Louise Ashcroft's work meddles with the bizarre logic of late capitalism and playfully addresses its social issues. About Louise Ashcroft Speaking fiction to power, Louise Ashcroft's work meddles with the bizarre logic of late capitalism and playfully addresses its social ...

Rachel Maclean | Eye Yours! They’ve Ggetuo

Rachel Maclean's Tipping Point piece, Eye Yours! They’ve Ggetuo, was a new sculpture part of a new body of AI-generated work, which draws parallels with the Victorian microscope boom to create a hallucinatory space that questions the assumptions we project onto AI. Rachel Maclean has spent the last decade showcasing her ground-breaking work in galleries, museums, film festivals and on television. Working across a variety of media, including video, digital print, paintings ...

Portrait of the artists from Studio Above and Below

Studio Above&Below

Studio Above&Below is an award-winning art and technology practice founded by Daria Jelonek (DE) and Perry-James Sugden (UK) after graduating from the Royal College of Art. Grounded in research-based methodologies, their work bridges the gaps between humans, machines, and our umwelt, exploring how media art can foster more meditative, healing, and sustainable interactions with our surroundings. Since its founding in 2018, the duo has specialised in creating immersive artworks that ...

Wesley Goatley

Wesley Goatley is a critical artist and researcher based in London, UK. His work critically interrogates the myths and manipulations of the AI industry and its relations to society, geopolitics, and the climate crisis, and how art practice can intervene. He has given talks on his practice and research at events such as Global Art Forum Singapore, the McLuhan Center for Culture and Technology in Toronto, CTM Festival Berlin, and the ...