A practical approach to Al for the art world with Alice Acland (Art Intelligence)

and then in terms of how I'm guessing at some point a specific interest around technology started to creep in Could you say whether that was more in the commercial environments or the public sector, or was it just a general interest that started to develop?

Yeah, I think I've always had an interest in tech, although I'm not a techie person.

I don't have a techie formal training or background.

I think I've always been quite an organized person and I've always really appreciated how tech can sort of amplify whatever structure you have in place.

So yeah, you have a good structure that can be endlessly multiplied and your reach can be you know, boundless almost.

But if you have a bad structure, you can really multiply a big mountain.

I was about to

say, it can also amplify chaos really well.

Yeah, totally.

As someone who is also not very good at tech, particularly bad at it.

Yeah, no, but it's, I mean,

there's a lot and, you know, sort of possibilities and pitfalls of what it can do.

So...

I think I, you know, going back almost to the podcast, I really love teaching myself things or learning new things as well.

So with the podcast, as much as I loved the content side of it, I also really enjoyed getting into the nuts and bolts of, you know, sound engineering and editing and all the rest of it.

I need to catch that interest.

Yeah, I just like, you know, and I think particularly because I've always had this interest artsy side or desire you know they're kind of not necessarily opposite but it's not necessarily what I would be exposed to at university or the skill set that you're typically going to have so I think I've always enjoyed you know as best as I can and very messily at times as well but trying to push that for myself

and then at what point did you suddenly think actually this is the direction I want to go was it more you noticed a gap and art intelligence came about and can you tell us a little bit about that

Yeah, absolutely.

So I think it came about really quite organically.

So I took some time away from full time work in February of this year.

And I just wanted to have a bit more headspace because I knew that I sort of wanted to go in a slightly different direction to working in galleries full time.

um and i just quite i found myself uh coming back to the reasons as to why i left um so that was sort of ruminating on that on one side and on the other side i was beginning to do a to do a lot of ai integration in my personal life just for systems and tools and take the opportunity of not working full-time at that stage so there are those two things kind of muddling along And the newsletter, which I launched on Substack in April this year, was just a way that I wanted to share my thoughts and my learnings, both of the state of play as I saw it of... tech and AI integration in arts organizations, but also different strategies, different ways of uplifting one's own, you know, kind of tech environment.

So it was more of just an experiment for myself really in a way to keep my mind a bit busy, I think, while I was trying to figure out what my next steps were.

And then the consultancy just ran very quickly after that.