Artist Alistair Gentry will talking about his research project for the ODI, an interactive performance artwork about trust and distrust of publicly accessible information, and how this relates to other work he’s done about truth and deception.

About the speaker
Alistair Gentry is a writer and artist, currently research artist in residence at the ODI. Previous residencies include the ESRC Genomics Policy & Research Forum at the University of Edinburgh, and Cambridge University’s Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Many of his art projects are the result of extensive research in particular places, subjects and communities, sometimes over the course of many years. He also likes silly costumes, museums, absurdity, visiting the uncanny valley, and making machines do things their manufacturers wouldn’t approve of.