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This summer, join artists, curators, musicians, writers, journalists, architects, and cultural leaders from around the world for the third annual BUMP Urban Art Conference, our festival's Ideas Hub.Centered around the theme Of Simmering, and the Surge, this year's program explores how ideas percolate, persist, gain traction, and ultimately transform the world around us. If 2025...
Beyond questions of efficiency or innovation, explore how AI reshapes authorship and cultural labour.As generative AI reshapes the cultural landscape, artists are confronting new questions around authorship, originality, labour, and refusal. In a world flooded with synthetic imagery, automated aesthetics, and algorithmically generated content, what does it mean to create something truly human, and which...
This summer, join artists, curators, musicians, writers, journalists, architects, and cultural leaders from around the world for the third annual BUMP Urban Art Conference, our festival's Ideas Hub.Centered around the theme Of Simmering, and the Surge, this year's program explores how ideas percolate, persist, gain traction, and ultimately transform the world around us. If 2025...
This summer, join artists, curators, musicians, writers, journalists, architects, and cultural leaders from around the world for the third annual BUMP Urban Art Conference, our festival's Ideas Hub.Centered around the theme Of Simmering, and the Surge, this year's program explores how ideas percolate, persist, gain traction, and ultimately transform the world around us. If 2025...
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