Conference dates 8-9 July 2026: tickets still available

Storytellers + Machines: The end of ai

The cultural and creative disruption of the first two years of generative AI technology was captured by Storytellers + Machines 2024 performers, artists and academics. Now as an artistic and academic community we speculate on, imagine, or perhaps plot the end of A.I. and wonder what might come after.

Storytellers + Machines 2026 is organised by the SODA Speculative Technologies Group in collaboration with Manchester Games Centre.

DAY 1

WEDNESDAY 8 JULY

• Keynote: Pinar Yoldas, award-winning US-Turkish artist and researcher

• Panel 1: Zeitgeist

• Panel 2: Ecological Burnout.

• Artists and work discussions.

• Algorithmic cultures book 'Listening In’ reading and Q&A

• Evening performances at The Deaf Institute.
  

DAY 2

THURSDAY 9 JULY

• Panel 3: Artistic Limits.

• Panel 4: Community Rejection.

• Panel 5: Possible Futures (with n-Space artists-in-residence programme @ Somerset House).

• Keynote: May Abdalla, BAFTA-award-winning director and co-founder of ANAGRAM.