Selected Lectures

Art and Artificial Intelligence

Discussion at Conway Hall Ethical Society on April 12, 2023.

How do artists make a living in a world where art can be produced just by typing in a few words? Could art stagnate with machine produced simulacra silting up the flow of human art and creativity? Or are we missing the potential of machine art to enhance the art world?

We explore this creative uncanny valley with Arthur I. Miller, author of The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity and Emeritus Professor History and Philosophy of Science, University College London, alongside Reema Selhi, Head of Policy and International at DACS, a not-for-profit visual artists’ rights management organisation.

Watch full talk on demand on the Conway Hall Player: https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/on-demand/art-and-artificial-intelligence/

SciArt Initiative: AI & Creativity

LunchBreak is a series of live, online interviews with artists, scientists, and creative technologists speaking virtually on Zoom over your lunch break.

October 22nd, 2020.

AI – Creator of New Art and Music

27th April 2018
FMX 2018: Creating Worlds
Raum Reutlingen
Stuttgart, Germany

Colliding Worlds – How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art

Lecture at the St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics (HAPP), University of Oxford on 30th October 2015

Visual Imagery and Creativity

Leiden, 9 February 2015

Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art

A Book Reading and Signing on November 3, 2014, 7 p.m. at the Keck Center, National Academy of Engineering, Washington DC

There is a quiet revolution going on in the world of art, a new avant garde pushing the boundaries farther than ever before. These are artists who work together with scientists to make extraordinary creations that may well change the world as we know it. From designer butterflies to plastic surgery as performance theater, from rabbits that glow in the dark to seeing sound and sculpting data, Arthur Miller will discuss this brave new world in his talk.

Gresham College Lecture on Creativity in Art and Creativity in Science

Lecture at Gresham College on October 24, 2013.

CERN Lecture: The Strange Friendship of Pauli and Jung – When Physics Met Psychology

A lecture given on Thursday 10 December 2009 at CERN.

At a key time in his scientific development, Pauli was undergoing analysis by Jung. What can we learn about Pauli’s discoveries of the exclusion principle and the CPT theorem, as well as his thoughts on non-conservation of parity, and his quest with Heisenberg for a unified field theory of elementary particles from Jungs analysis of his dreams? A very different Pauli emerges, one at odds with esteemed colleagues such as Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg.

Into the Crucibles of Nature

Presented as part of an exhibition with Fiorella Lavado – Benaki Museum, Athens – September 30, 2009
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When Pauli met Jung – and what happened next

Presented at A Conference on Wolfgang Pauli’s Philosophical Ideas and Contemporary Science – Ascona, Switzerland – May 21, 2007

Abstract Art and Abstract Science

Versions presented at:

  • The Two Cultures: Shared ProblemsVenice, Italy – October 25, 2007
  • Aspen Institute for Ideas – Aspen, Colorado – July 5, 2007
  • The Forum on intellectual unity between the arts and sciences – Tokyo University – August 30, 2006

Einstein and Picasso

Versions presented at:

  • The Honours Convocation – University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska – April 18, 2007
  • The Science Museum – Jerusalem, Israel – January 25, 2007
  • The Einstein Centenary – San Sebastian Spain – September 8, 2005

Beauty and Science

Versions presented at:

  • Science Museum – Jerusalem, Israel – January 25, 2007
  • Hebrew University – Jerusalem, Israel – January 24, 2007
  • Technology, Cognition and Culture Lecture Series – Rice University, Houston, Texas – November 17, 2004

Empire of the Stars

Versions presented at:

  • University of Athens – Athens, Greece – March 20, 2007
  • The Einstein Centenary – San Sebastian Spain – September 7, 2005
  • The Hayden Planitarium – New York City – May 9, 2005