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About Jocelyn Burnham

Jocelyn Burnham (she/her) is an independent artificial intelligence specialist working with the creative and cultural sectors.

She has been commissioned by organisations including Arts Council England, Tate, the Church of England, the Goethe-Institut, Historic Royal Palaces, Art Fund, Shakespeare's Globe, RADA, Kew, and Bloomberg Philanthropies to produce bespoke AI workshops and resources, and has delivered over one hundred AI workshops for arts and culture organisations to date. She has been a British Council UK delegate for discussions on AI and has appeared as an expert commentator in national media, including BBC News and LBC Radio.

Jocelyn takes a deliberately neutral position on AI, and her practice centres on helping organisations and practitioners develop their own confident, critical, and creative relationships with the technology through playfulness and hands-on experimentation.

Jocelyn has given lectures and talks on AI for the University of Oxford, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Open University, the British Library, the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, the London School of Economics, the National Galleries of Scotland, the University of Exeter, the Northern Ireland Science Festival, and others.

She also takes on long-form project partnerships with sector organisations. Recent work includes serving as project partner on The Audience Agency's Let's Get Real: AI programme, and the Arts Marketing Association's Heritage Innovation Fund project, where she developed the concept that became Goose, a peer-learning platform awarded £250,000 by the National Lottery Heritage Innovation Fund.

Before specialising in AI, Jocelyn held senior marketing and communications roles at UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival, Music Theatre Wales, and Sadler's Wells.

Publications

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