R&D Labyrinths Launch: Rindon Johnson, Black Swan & Ricardo Saavedra

This is a recording of the live event which took place on Serpentine’s Twitch on May 5th at 6pm BST.

The first three episodes feature Rindon Johnson on his poetry bot D’Artagnan, Black Swan on their consensus-building tool Cygnet and Ricardo Saavedra on his music composition interface, Gradient. Followed by Q&As with the artists who built the tech. Hosted by Eva Jäger, Associate Curator of Arts Technologies and Co-I of the Creative AI Lab, and the effervescent ‘Orb’ (voiced by Calum Bowden).

Direction: Trust & Serpentine R&D Platform

Production: Trust and GVN908

Editing: Trust

Camera: Shivani Hassard, Maidje Meergans

Music: Billy John Bultheel

Sound design: Joanna Pope

Sound recordist: Greg Oke and Gaston Ibarroule

3D: Malte Zander

Real-time animation: Philip Ullman

Logo design: Son La Pham

Cygnet user interface design and animation: Leïth Benkhedda

Special thank you to Mercedes Bunz for her help developing the Labyrinths; Kamille Johnson for their help explaining D’Artangnan; to Ruth Catlow and Furtherfield and the Goethe Institute for their support with the Black Swan DAO