

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Hybrid: Move Fast and Break Things: Control, Progress and the Black Box
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Artists Alex May and James Bloom debate the role of the artist in an age of automated "black box" AI art and creativity.About this EventSpeakersJames BloomAlex MaySynopsis“Move fast and break things” was the mantra that defined a decade of technological acceleration, privileging scale, speed, and optimisation over reflection and consequence. In this joint talk, artists Alex May and James Bloom reclaim the phrase as a critical lens, debating the role of artistic agency within contemporary automated and opaque “black box” systems.Drawing on contrasting practices - one based on structural control, the other on systemic rupture - the talk examines how artists can meaningfully intervene in technological culture.Learning points and educational uses:Understanding artistic and general agency within AI-driven and algorithmic systemsCritical perspectives on “black box” technologies and automationComparing approaches to creative coding: building from first principles versus stress-testing systemsExploring failure as a productive artistic and research methodExamining ethics, authorship, and responsibility in computational artRelevant to teaching in digital art, creative coding, AI ethics, media studies, and interdisciplinary art–technology programmes.About the speakersJames Bloom is a London-based artist who uses technological innovation as a method to generate perceptual problems.His online artworks connect their participants in real-time but have utility engineered out, upending the structure of the networks they exist within and revealing possibilities for autonomy. He takes complex code-based and material production techniques and combines them in unintended ways, often to the point of failure, triggering new states.Alex May is an internationally recognised artist known for his innovative exploration of the intersection between art, science, and technology, with a focus on creating multi-layered works that resonate with the human experience in a digital world.His body of work utilises creative software he has written and a wide range of digital new media forms including video sculpture, algorithmic photography, interactive robotics, photogrammetry as memory, 3D printed sculpture, virtual and augmented reality apps, video projection mapping, generative algorithms and biological sonification, with roots in experimental performative software, video and sound art.Our events are for adults aged 16 years and over.BCS is a membership organisation. If you enjoy this event, please consider joining BCS. You’ll be very welcome. You’ll receive access to many exclusive career development tools, an introduction to a thriving professional community and also help us Make IT Good For Society. If you are attending in person, please familiarise yourself with the Visitor Instructions for the BCS London Office.Please note, if you have any accessibility needs, please let us know via groups@bcs.uk, and we’ll work with you to make suitable arrangements.For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event, please note that BCS does not issue invitation letters.This event is brought to you by: Computer Arts SocietyAgenda🕑: 06:00 PMTalk starts🕑: 07:15 PMDiscussion with questions from the audience and Zoom🕑: 08:00 PMNetworking with Refreshments🕑: 09:00 PMEvent ends
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- **Event Categories**: art, it, fine-arts
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## Event venue details

- **city**: London
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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- **full address**: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 25 Copthall Ave, London, United Kingdom

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