The Workplace

In this episode, Stephen Anderson, an enterprise coach at The Forward Trust, an organisation which helps people who have had challenging experiences to get their lives on track, explains how the service he provides helps people with a prison record to take the start-up or self-employed route into work employment. 

Personal effectiveness coach and founder of Ingenium Coaching, Toyin Akande Akinyemi, talks about Managing Change In The Workplace: the reasons for change, how different personality types respond to change and best practices for communicating change within an organisation.

Al Parra co-founding director at BLOQS https://bloqslondon.com/ discusses the pay-as-you-go open-access factory, co-working maker space, training provider (and much more!), that operates sustainably and which, by democratising resources, has revolutionised the way creatives, small and large, can do business. If you are a creative, looking for affordable business space, your search is officially over.

The autumn/winter 2023 season features a series of episodes focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and has been realised with the generous support of ARC Club.In the first episode, NND speaks with Jennifer Wong, head of programming at Science Gallery London about the exhibition ‘AI: Who’s Looking After Me?' - a collaboration with arts organisation Future Everything that brings together artists, researchers and young people to collectively interrogate AI through the lenses of care and the arts, taking a critical look at how this technology is unfolding in our lives today and highlighting the reality of its development in relation to where it might be going in the future.

AI season on the programme continues with the generous support of ARC-Club as we explore different aspects of the exhibition ‘AI: Who’s Looking After Me?’ In the first of a two-part discussion NND speaks with artist Wesley Goatley about his installation, Newly Forgotten Technologies, which engages in #AI myth-busting, uncovering the hidden #environmental costs and realities of technology and device consumption in the developed world and the shadow industry labour market in less developed countries that underpins it. Includes sounds from the machine learning voices of Alexa and Siri, with no other sound sources.

AI season on the programme continues with the generous support of ARC-Club as we explore different aspects of the exhibition ‘AI: Who’s Looking After Me?’ In this episode NND concludes a two-part discussion with artist Wesley Goatley about his installation, Newly Forgotten Technologies, which engages in AI myth-busting. Join us as we uncover the hidden impact of AI on communities, the cultural disconnect between this technology and the mechanisms that underpin it and the extent of behind-the-scenes human labour involved in the illusion of automation.

AI season on the programme continues with the generous support of ARC Club as we explore different aspects of the exhibition ‘AI: Who’s Looking After Me?' In episode 4 NND talks to Irini Papadimitriou, creative director at arts organisation Future Everything, who explores the impact of AI in the arts, the role of artists in shaping this new technology and how AI has wrought a ‘new colonialism’. Also, we ask ChatGPT what is the role of human artists in society and whether AI will make human artists redundant.

AI season resumes with the generous support of Arc Club. In episode 5, AI in the Medical Field, NND talks to Annie Woodson, director at TripleDotMakers, Samantha Johnson, chief executive at ECHO Charity and Tareen Dawood, PhD researcher at Kings College London, about Heartificial Intelligence, their installation in the Science Gallery London exhibition ‘AI: Who’s Looking After Me?’ created in collaboration with artists and young people (aged 11-25), affected by heart conditions. The piece is an art machine which used AI to provide a visual representation of medical data garnered from patients, examine their health care journey with AI and explore their concerns around trust in AI.

AI season continues with the generous support of ARC Club as NND talks to PhD researcher Munkhtulga Battogtokh about Safe and Trusted AI in the context of his installation ‘What is Essence?’ in the Science Gallery London exhibition AI: Who’s Looking After Me? We explore the difference between humans and AI, how can art help us explore the limits of the human mind and how this can potentially impact the development of AI.