Vivid Lab resident Exodus Crooks is exhibiting new work titled We need 2 tlk, at The Exchange, Birmingham, as part of AI FUTURES.

Taking the form of a moving image installation, and working in collaboration with movement artist Chelsea Gordon,We need 2 tlk explores public perceptions of AI, and how technological developments have altered our behaviour when it comes to communicating with others, centring on the haptics and gestures present in everyday phone use and the processing of information from the eye, brain and hands.

Commissioned by Ikon Gallery and the University of Birmingham, and supported as part of Vivid Lab, this work continues to explore research outlined in the work of celebrated Jamaican-British academic and cultural theorist Professor Stuart Hall (1932–2014).

Exodus Crooks is a British-Jamaican multi-disciplinary artist and educator. A common theme in their practice is the relationship with the self, which often manifests as questions regarding the possibility of self-actualisation.

On July 25th, Cathy Wade, Artist Facilitator at Vivid Projects, and Exodus Crooks will be discussing We need 2 tlk  as part of Opening Up, an evening of free events at The Exchange. From 6-8pm you can drop in for a series of talks, exhibitions and creative workshops intended to open up discussions around AI Futures and the Stuart Hall Archive Project. Full schedule here.