This project involved researching the process of imagining and inventing plausible fictional AI gadgets using processes from comedy. It was a BRAID UK (Bridging Responsible Artificial Intelligence Divides) Artist Commission 2025. I worked with 4 comedians Ella Golt, John Luke Roberts, Ben Target and Frankie Thompson to make a series of video adverts advertising our 'inventions' and these were shown on a bespoke touchscreen at Inspace Gallery Edinburgh, 7-31 August 2025. The videos were part of an installation of watercolour diagrams with a publication co-created with researcher Rebecca Edwards contextualising comedy-led ideas in relation to existing/future real tech. The process was informed by participatory workshops including at BRAID UK's conference at The Lowry in Salford, and at Inspace Edinburgh during the show itself. The workshops involved participants using talking and intuitive painting to get to the crux of problems in life/society which they invented solutions to in the form of painted 'prototypes' for experimental AI. Videography was by Hannah Taylor.

Exhibited 7-31 August 2025
Tipping Point: Artist Responses to AI – at Inspace Gallery Edinburgh. The exhibition featured newly commissioned artworks from Louise Ashcroft, Julie Freeman, Wesley Goatley, Identity 2.0, Rachel Maclean, Kiki Shervington-White, and Studio Above & Below. 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).

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

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39593