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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

My new report offers practical insights and honest reflections on developing Responsible AI Policy and Practice @artscouncilengland.bsky.social .... no shiny hype, just some real lessons learned along the way. @braiduk.bsky.social

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Responsible AI at Arts Council England

This report focuses on how the Arts Council is using AI responsibly in its internal work

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Sarah Brin @verybrinteresting.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Hi! As an experiment, I've added a couple "pay what you can" slots for advising sessions. You might use these to: - Talk through a creative project for sense-checking or figuring out how to break it into milestones - Discuss outreach for your project/company -Ask "pick your brain"-type questions

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Pay What You Can Session - Sarah Brin

Hi! This is a "pay what you can" session designed to support individuals with lower incomes.You may use this session to: Talk through a creative project for general sense-checking or figuring out how ...

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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Moseka, “an impressive, incorruptible traffic robot.” #AI #Africamuseum

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Siobhán McSweeney has been announced as the host of The Traitors Ireland.

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'm excited for AI to take Christmas off .... oh wait.....look the Open Consultation on AI and Copyright in the Creative Industries... has just launched... 🎄👩‍💻🫣

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

SXSW Panel Picker 'keyword search' can't seem to find one of my sessions - but if you'd like to vote for the 'The Art of Responsible AI' MeetUp with @braiduk.bsky.social you can search for '3122' and it comes up. Or my session CURATOR COMPUTER CREATOR search for '1266' 🫡✅

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

If PanelPicker is your thing - pop over and give us a vote - we'd love to bring together lots of fun and fabulous people - and SXSW seems like the perfect platform to do it!

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I'm pretty sure my neighbour - who is a multiple houses landlord - has been using it when we have been discussing works on our leasehold building. The professionalisation of language from previous text exchanges is fascinating!

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The ChatGPT secret: is that text message from your friend, your lover – or a robot?

People are turning to chatbots to solve all their life problems, and they like its answers. But are they on a very slippery slope?

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm so glad Scott is on Bluesky - one of my favourite twitter commentators - > brilliant as usual in this article!

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This event was great! ... really good discussions.

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I wrote a lot about the contemporary purpose of museums, libraries and archives in my PhD, and my visit to Oslo last week made me think back to the work that was happening in New York when I spent a summer there in 2012. It's not digital that's interesting, it's how digital shapes society ...

Key Trend 01 Embracing contemporary culture to develop new audiences Collections provide us with a unique link to the past, but to be interesting to the average visitor, they must also provide a link to the present. Visitors want to know how a museum and its collection are relevant to them today. While in New York I came across a number of interesting events, programmes and exhibitions that demonstrated the contemporary relevance of museums and their collections, for this report I have selected three case studies which demonstrate that this approach requires vision rather than infinite resources.

Key Trend 2: The museum as a place for experimentation and innovation by visitors New Technologies are beginning to shift the way visitors are learning. A new model of collaborative learning is beginning to emerge. Whilst museum educators continue to teach visitors about the museum’s collections, increasingly museum visitors are providing museums themselves with new ways to view their collection. Whilst still a relatively new phenomena this trend marks a radical shift away from educator workshops with a defined, pre planned outcome.

Key Trend 3: Skill sharing and reflective practice Agile thinking and practices are somewhat at odds with museum culture, museums have reputation for being slow, often bureaucratic institutions. While I was in New York I was excited to see a range of digital education, marketing, collections and web teams tackle this legacy of bureaucracy by forming their own informal professional skill sharing networks. These new networks support museum technologists as they seek to create a new more agile and reflective environment that is conducive to and facilitates the development of emerging practice. These networks can be divided into three categories, informal events, conferences and social networks.

Key Trend 4: The museum as an innovative, agile, mission lead institution It was clear that museums in New York are invested in the future. The old argument ‘if we put everything online people won’t visit’ has been blown out of the water and many museums in New York now recognise that to succeed now and in the future they must develop a culture of research and development that responds to, challenges and works with contemporary culture and technological advancements. It was interesting to see how museums in New York are beginning to recognise that throwing money at singular digital projects is not enough. Instead it was evident that a number of key international museums have begun to see digital technologies and research and development as a key strategic priority and as such are creating departments staffed with people from a range of backgrounds and skill sets to work with the museum as a whole. This strategic approach of creating departments tasked with R&D, emerging technologies, and creating sustainable practices, demonstrates an interesting human resource approach to joined up thinking that will allow museums to use their historical and contemporary collections in a way that is relevant and engaging to visitors both today and tomorrow.

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Deichman Bjørvika (Oslo Public Library) is a kind of scandi utopia of what a public commons can be. Giant makerspace, soft play, cinema rooms, music studios. Buzzing with all generations, making, learning, sharing space and ideas www.dezeen.com/2020/07/02/d...

Picture of a stage in the middle of the library, set up for a gig, with people sitting reading.

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Marco Fiore @marcofiore.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Great insights, especially in the article: "Digital art work and AI: a new paradigm for work in the contemporary art sector in China" Artistic practices are changing - the artisanal labour is still there, it is just taking a different shape.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I made a starter pack but it made me tense because all taxonomies are political and no, I absolutely did not overthink this. Also! It is really hard to find people in your graph who have fewer followers. Bluesky should let you sort the list with least followers first. go.bsky.app/VFxSES6

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

And when he was told the sale price, he began to cry. “I am a poor man,” Mr. Alam, 74, said, his voice breaking. “I have never had this kind of money; I have never seen this kind of money.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/n...

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The Sidewalk Fruit Vendor Who Sold a $6.2 Million Banana for 25 Cents

A 74-year-old immigrant who works outside Sotheby’s shares a basement in the Bronx and works 12-hour shifts. He was stunned to hear what his banana went for at auction.

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Norway does good museums and dramatic skies. Was torn between looking at the art and the big skies yesterday afternoon. Apparently the building is designed to have that impact - framing the city and the art, and it hits the nail on the head.

Image shows the MUNCH museum building in front of big blue sky

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Now this is tech for good that I can get behind - This 'AI Granny' Bores Scammers to Tears - brilliant example of what is possible when we think differently about a problem! uk.pcmag.com/security/155...

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This 'AI Granny' Bores Scammers to Tears

After a survey found that 71% of Brits want revenge on scammers, mobile operator O2 deploys Daisy, an AI tool that keeps fraudsters on the line to waste their time.

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Arrived in Norway to work with MUNCH museum for a few days - nice to see Edvard moonlighting as a weather man at the airport!

Image of a interactive billboard - with an image of Edvard Munch painting The Scream and a weather forecast saying it is -2 degrees

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 22/11/2024

Buenos Aires’ justice system is using ChatGPT to write legal decisions. “We, as professionals, are not the main characters anymore. We have become editors,” said one deputy attorney general restofworld.org/2024/buenos-...

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Courts in Buenos Aires are using ChatGPT to draft rulings

Generative AI is replacing a successful AI project that drafted legal rulings. Experts worry about data privacy, ethical quandaries, and the need for specialized training.

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Claire Bailey Ross @clairebaileyross.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Really like the focus on the human. The Congruence engine as a social machine - requires the agency of its potential users. Links will occur where people actually want links to be made. speed of automation but with very much human motivations www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/projects/the... #tanc

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The Congruence Engine: Digital tools for new collections based industrial histories | Science Museum Group

The Congruence Engine is a three-year research project starting in November 2021 that will use the latest digital techniques to connect industrial history collections held in different locations.

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404 Media @404media.co · 19/11/2024

Book publisher HarperCollins confirms it has a deal to sell authors' work to an AI company 🔗 www.404media.co/harpercollin...

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Great new #artstech open call from @braiduk.bsky.social - applications close on 2nd December... braiduk.org/artist-commi...

We are excited to commission five UK-based artists or artist groups to create artworks that explore new ways to think about today’s AI and the futures we want work in responsible AI to help us build.

All that is needed is a clear engagement with responsible AI; it is not required that AI technology be used in the art making process.

The aim of these commissions is to:

encourage artists to enrich and expand the responsible AI ecosystem by making artworks that help us more wisely respond to present realities and near future horizons of AI
demonstrate how art can critique and improve responsible AI tools, methods and approaches in creative and engaging ways
inspire and empower members of the public to better understand, engage with and inform responsible AI development.

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Managed to get a ticket for the Van Gogh exhibition at The National Gallery - for one of the 7pm slots last week. Enjoyed the contrast of sunny paintings and dark dark London in Nov... next up ... attempt to get a ticket for the sold out Monet at the Courtauld before it finishes 🕵️‍♀️🎨

Picture of the sign for the national gallery with the moon in the background

Picture of van gogh painting of irises in a lavish gold frame

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The fact that UCC hid a 3000-year-old mummy under the floorboards of a lecture theatre on a campus where two and a half tonnes of uranium rods were being stored in a basement nearby and DIDN'T end up with a zombie-pharaoh apocalypse is both a mystery and endlessly disappointing

Screenshot of an Irish Times article from 2011 with the headline "University in talks with Egypt over future of ancient mummy"

Screenshot of an Irish Times article from 2003 with the headline "UCC keeping 2.3 tonnes of uranium in basement store"

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I'm out at a gig in London on Thursday. We are all coming after work, but the 'no bags' rule means we can't bring our 'day bags' with us. One friend might have to drop out if she can't bring her laptop. I get it for security, but surely it puts people off going to gigs afterwork / midweek?

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

An essential read and vital call to support community tech: “The UK does not need to rely only on trickledown and spillover mechanisms to distribute the benefits of innovation, we could also nurture the vibrant, regenerative network of organisations already building technologies from the ground up.”

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Oliver Mantell @olivermantell.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Here's a little test to see how the UK #arts BlueSky network is working already...: We (The Audience Agency, plus partners) are doing some research on performing arts #touring for Arts Council England (inc. music, dance, theatre, combined arts): www.artscouncil.org.uk/research-and... 1/2

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Touring Research 2024

Learn more about our 2024 major research study of the touring of theatre, dance, music and combined arts activities.

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Arts x Tech people can't recommend this residency strongly enough - I did it a few years ago. Spent two weeks reading books, thinking and writing about art and AI.. in a Scottish Castle. Closing date for applications 5th Jan 2025. hospitalfield.org.uk/residencies/...

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Interdisciplinary Residencies 2025 – Hospitalfield

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Professor Tom Crick @proftomcrick.com · 14/11/2024

UK National Data Library: Technical White Paper Challenge <— “Wellcome and ESRC are seeking technical visions and architectures for a UK NDL to make public sector datasets more accessible to researchers and enable future science to thrive.“ wellcome.org/what-we-do/o...

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UK National Data Library | Wellcome

We are seeking technical visions and architectures for a UK National Data Library to make public sector datasets more accessible to researchers and enable future science to thrive.

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Catherine Breslin @catherinebreslin.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

BRAID are working with Better Images of AI with this call for artists who want to explore new ways to think about today’s AI braiduk.org/artist-commi...

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Artist Commissions - BRAID UK

BRAID UK - Artist Commissions

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Howard Lake @howardlake.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

It's the arts & culture starter pack from @themerl.bsky.social: go.bsky.app/HPQsZAu "Follow the past in the present on Bluesky through libraries, museums, galleries and archives!"

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Arts & Culture Starter Pack

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 13/11/2024

I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me. go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This starter pack might be useful for some of my mutuals! go.bsky.app/Ek7qMyo.

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Oonagh Murphy @oonaghtweets.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Recently worked with The International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent to Curate 'Digital Dilemmas' a year long public program exploring the intersection of tech on society through the lens of artists and collections - you can now read our reflections > redcrossmuseum.ch/explore/medi...

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

We are thrilled to announce the BRAID Artist Commissions Open Call, encouraging new ways to think about today’s AI. Artists will receive a £10,000 budget to develop their work & will be showcased during the Edinburgh Art Festival 2025 at @inspacegallery.bsky.social 🎨 braiduk.org/artist-commi...

A person with braids looks to the right. The background is blue. The braids have been shaped above the head into stark triangles with spheres at the points where the triangles meet. A text circle next to the model reads, 'BRAID artist commissions open call'.

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