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For the arts, culture and creative sectors - and those seeking playful ways into AI

Jocelyn Burnham jocelyn@aiforculture.com

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Tate, AI workshop client
Royal Academy of Arts, AI lecture host
London Symphony Orchestra, AI board advisory commission
Brazil's Ministry of Culture, AI conference commission
Goethe Institut, AI lecture host
Museum of Prague, AI workshop client
Den Danske Filmskole, AI workshop client
The London School of Economics and Political Science, AI workshop client
Bloomberg Philanthropies, AI workshop client
The Royal Ballet & Opera, AI workshop client
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, AI workshop client
The Church of England, AI workshop client
National Galleries Scotland, AI lecture host
RADA, AI workshop client
Shakespeare's Globe, AI workshop client
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, AI conference commission
Arts Council England, AI workshop client
Art Fund, AI workshop client and board advisory
Historic Royal Palaces, AI workshop client
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, AI workshop client
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, AI workshop client
Rambert School, AI workshop client
The Royal Academy of Dance, AI lecture host
Norfolk & Norwich Festival, AI workshop client
Association of British Orchestras, AI conference commission
Oxford University Innovation Ltd, AI workshop client
The Open University, AI lecture host and AI partnership
University of Leeds, AI lecture host
University of Birmingham, AI workshop client
University of Exeter, AI lecture host
The Audience Agency, AI partnership
Punchdrunk Enrichment, AI workshop client
The Space, AI workshop client
Edinburgh Fringe Society, AI workshop client
Bradford Producing Hub, AI workshop client
Japan House London, AI workshop client
Crafts Council, AI workshop client
Museums Association, AI lecture host
Dance Umbrella, AI workshop client
Independent Cinema Office, AI conference commission
NI Science Festival, AI show commission
National Lottery Heritage Fund, AI workshop client and AI funder
Charity Digital, AI workshop client
Future Arts Centres, AI workshop client
Storyhouse, AI show commission
Warwick Arts Centre, AI workshop client
Clore Leadership, editorial content commission

Selected projects and partnerships

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Let's Get Real: AI (2025-2026) | Project partner on The Audience Agency's twelfth Let's Get Real programme, supporting sixteen cultural organisations (including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Academy of Arts, and the National Gallery) through an eight-month collaborative experimental programme on AI in the cultural sector. [Read the full case study]

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Goose: An AI-driven peer learning platform for the UK heritage sector (2023-2026) | In partnership with the Arts Marketing Association, I co-led the co-creation process with heritage professionals across the UK and I authored the concept that became Goose. The project was awarded £250,000 in Grow Phase funding by the National Lottery Heritage Innovation Fund in 2024. [Read the full case study]

Oakley x IoDF: Artifacts From The Future Innovation Lab (2025) | Led the AI workshop and joined the evening panel at the Artifacts From The Future Innovation Lab, a collaboration between fashion brand Oakley and IoDF, working with a cohort of five emerging designers (the Oakley Future 5) selected from a global call-out. [Read the full case study]

About Jocelyn

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 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.

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Featured Media

Culture and the machine (page 18) | Report from Let’s Get Real: AI | The Audience Agency (March 2026)

AI in Culture | The Arts & Culture Podcast | The Association for Cultural Enterprises (Oct 2025)

Featured in Your go-to guides to AI | Arts Professional (March 2025)

Opinion | AI Innovation in culture is impossible without vulnerability | The Audience Agency (March 2025)

CultureTalk: Playful Innovation and AI’s Role in Culture with Jocelyn Burnham (Feb 2025)

Human leadership in an AI world | Clore Leadership (Jul 2024)

AI: Why the arts should choose playfulness over fear | Arts Professional (Nov 2023)

Neural Networks Will Change Television Forever | The Startup, Medium (Jun 2020)

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