Ben Stopher

Researcher, Artist, Designer. Deputy Vice-Chancellor @NorwichUniArts | Formally, Founding Dean @UAL Creative Computing Institute @UAL_CCi

[CreativeApplications.Net @creativeapps]

Since 2008, CAN has defied big tech’s dominance, nurturing a global network of artists, designers, educators, hackers & makers—proving alternative networks not only exist, but flourish!

[Luba Elliott @elluba]

We just opened the submissions portal for the #CreativeAI Track at @NeurIPSConf 🥳 🤖

Submit papers and art until 2nd August

Details: https://t.co/1lalhoqWxd

cc @marcelocoelho @priyascape @alanyttian

#NeurIPS2025

[Institute of Coding @IoCoding]

Want to learn how to build websites that everyone can use? 🌐 Click Start Peckham DAZ with @ual_cci, @UKBlackTech and @lb_southwark is live, and one of this round’s free pathways is Accessible Web Development.

Applications close tomorrow 12th June: https://t.co/eHqGRintDO

[Terence Broad @Terrybroad]

I recently gave a talk about my PhD research at @ual_cci after completing my PhD at @goldcomputing in March. You can watch the full talk here: https://t.co/qgdn6FmJcw

[UAL Creative Computing Institute @ual_cci]

Explore the future of creativity + code!

Ahead of our Summer Festival next month, join us at the Creative Computing Collective Showcase by our 2025 Diploma class

🧠 Art, AI, design + tech collide
📅 5-11pm, 28 May 2025
📍Fleet House, EC4V 6AL
🎟️ https://t.co/k3LXnsnPvU

[Terence Broad @Terrybroad]

Myself and a couple of my @ual_cci colleagues were profiled in a recent feature in @techreview by @strwbilly on the ways artists are finding new ways of using AI in artistic practice by treating it as an artistic material: https://t.co/634aXuvyjo

[Norwich University of the Arts @NorwichUniArts]

The big switch on: Norwich University of the Arts powers up with solar energy.

265 new solar panels will be switched on across Norwich's Guntons and St Andrews buildings.

https://t.co/NeLAjJU34q

[Luba Elliott @elluba]

Back to organising #CreativeAI at @NeurIPSConf this year 🤖🎨

We just launched our open call for papers and art on the theme of humanity until 2nd August

Details: https://t.co/1lalhoqoHF

Organising with
@marcelocoelho
@priyascape
@alanyttian

#Neurips2025

[lex fefegha @lexfefegha]

new project alert 🚨 🚨

[Ben Stopher @benstopher]

Norwich University of the Arts presents ten student experiments exploring paludiculture ⁦@NorwichUniArts⁩ https://t.co/7vhlFKRSbv

[lex fefegha @lexfefegha]

made this course a couple years back on designing a feminist chatbot with @ual_cci @feministintrnet @FutureLearn

6k people have enrolled... nice.. made this before the days of LLMs

https://t.co/Ack2M2OeMS

[TEI Conference @tei_conf]

The #TEI2025 studios explored ideation, sensoaesthetic and full-body textile interfaces, somaesthetic exploration, tangible LLMs, soft living artefacts, feminist and queer pleasure, shape change with keyboards, decentralized tangibles, digital papyrus, waste and inflatables.

[Design Informatics @DesignInf]

Join us in the next BRAID x IDI Online Seminar, where Ananda Rutherford from @UAL's Decolonising Arts Institute will share the topic of 'Do "Words Matter" in Machine Learning?'.

📅 Thurs 13 Mar 2025
⏰ 4 – 5pm
📍 Online via Zoom only
🎟 https://t.co/5PMyTBJE89

[MIT Media Lab @medialab]

New research from the @CCCatMIT, in collaboration with @mitPRG and the Human Dynamics research group, demonstrates a novel approach to using AI tools to transform complex legal concepts into engaging stories. https://t.co/hGZ5LRp0Y8

[ESRC Digital Good Network @digitalgoodnet]

Call for papers: Towards sustainable digital futures, a two-day symposium
📅14–15 May 2025, University of Sheffield, UK

🔗Find out more: https://t.co/MgzwOCwQvu Apply by 17 Feb

🌳Hosted by the Imagining Sustainable Digital Futures project led by Minna Vigren @hmtk #digitalgood

[Institute of Coding @IoCoding]

Tinu already had some good technical skills, but wanted to find ways of being more creative in her technical practice. This led her to join the @ual_cci @UAL @UKBlackTech Click Start programme, where she gained the skills & perspectives needed to help her stand out to employers.

[manovich @manovich]

The final version of our book 'Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media' is now available as a free PDF download #GenerativeAI #DigitalCulture #Aesthetics #AIArt https://t.co/PIlEKjQ1j8

[CreativeApplications.Net @creativeapps]

Neurocognitive Research Specialist Technician at UAL Creative Computing Institute / @ual_cci / London, UK #Jobs https://t.co/u618LSdlkX

[Julien Gachadoat @v3ga]

It took me a while but I finally finished to recode the 300 programs of Jean-Paul Delahaye’s book "Nouveaux dessins géométriques et artistiques" with p5js. The book was published in 1985 and features classic generative algorithms.
—
Link below ↓

[Luba Elliott @elluba]

If you're bored in the holidays, now could be a good time to prepare your submission to my AI art gallery at @CVPR 😁

More details here: https://t.co/gwg5YUjtB3

For inspiration, the 2024 gallery: https://t.co/XTGoCWbbKG

#creativeAI #AIart #CVPR2025