Artist Commissions

Tipping Point: Artist responses to AI

Tipping Point explores what artists can do to help us more wisely respond to the present realities and near-future horizons of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The exhibition will feature newly commissioned artworks from Louise Ashcroft, Julie Freeman, Wesley Goatley, Identity 2.0, Rachel Maclean, Kiki Shervington-White, and Studio Above & Below.

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

See artists bios below, and find out more about the exhibition, which runs from 7-31 August 2025, here:

Tipping Point: Artist Responses to AI – Inspace

This art commissioning programme is 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.

Identity 2.0

Identity 2.0 is a creative studio imagining better digital futures. Their work explores inclusive stories about our relationship to technology. Since 2018, they’ve transformed research into creative mediums and playful knowledge spaces and have worked with Stop Killer Robots, The Royal Society, and Museum of London. They have also spoken at the World Wide Web Foundation, University of Oxford and University Arts of London about curating exhibitions, using art for ...

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

Speaking fiction to power, Louise Ashcroft's work meddles with the bizarre logic of late capitalism and playfully addresses its social issues. Her recent film 'What to Expect When You're Not Expecting' (2024) is a research-comedy foray into the fertility industry's inequalities and her own queer journey to non-parenthood. A related project 'No Kids Nursery Rhymes' (2024-5) surveyed 180 childfree (by choice or otherwise) people, turning their complex experiences into catchy ...

Rachel Maclean

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1987, artist 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 and VR, she makes complex and layered works that reference politics, fairy tales, celebrity culture and more. She has shown her work widely, both in the UK and internationally, receiving critical acclaim in the spheres ...

Portrait of the artists 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 ...