The Rumble Museum at Cheney School is linking up with the team behind Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra realistic robot artist, for an all-day event at the Bodleian's Weston Library.
Between 10.30am and 3.30pm on Saturday, September 10, students from the Headington school will be exhibiting artwork and creative writing responding to artificial intelligence in our lives today and in the future.
From 11am to12 noon, there will be a Q&A and live art session where audience members will be introduced to Ai-Da herself, who will create a new piece of artwork, and be able to ask Ai-Da questions.
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This session will be hosted by Cheney School’s Rumble Museum Council students and booking is essential.
Students from the school will then be exhibiting artwork and creative writing responding to artificial intelligence in our lives today.
Visitors will also be able to watch a model of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine in action and a robot ladybug that follows light and sound.
The event is part of ‘Imagining AI’, which celebrates objects in the Bodleian’s collections that explore the boundary between human and machine.
This co-hosted event marks the end of a year-long series of artefact displays, talks, workshops and projects at the Rumble Museum exploring AI and the future from a range of perspectives, both utopian and dystopian.
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Cheney School is a large comprehensive secondary school, in a very diverse area of east Oxford, where over 30% of the students have English as an additional language, and over 30% of students are on free school meals.
The Iris Project, a charity which promotes learning about the ancient world, is working with Cheney School to grow a community classics centre and museum within a school.
It is the first school museum to be awarded full Museum Accreditation by the Arts Council Museum Accreditation Scheme.
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This story was written by Andy Ffrench, he joined the team more than 20 years ago and now covers community news across Oxfordshire.
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