Simon Wilkinson

Co-Director

BRiGHTBLACK Productions Limited

Speaker Biography

Simon Wilkinson is an artist, filmmaker and creative technologist whose work spans artificial intelligence, immersive storytelling, virtual reality, games and experimental media. His work has toured to 41 nations and been exhibited at major cultural institutions and festivals worldwide, including Tate Modern. Cineuropa described him as “one of the most notable names in Europe to be dealing with VR and its applications in cinema.”

In 2017, Wilkinson was selected as an artist-in-residence at the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, beginning a sustained exploration of the creative, ethical and societal implications of artificial intelligence. He subsequently co-founded Electric Dreaming Lab, an artist development programme exploring the practical and critical applications of AI in creative practice.

He is co-director of BRiGHTBLACK, an experimental arts studio exploring the relationship between emerging technologies, human experience and the future of creative practice.

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