Values-driven
AI experimentation
for Arts & Culture
Jocelyn Burnham helps cultural organisations, artists and creative communities make sense of AI through workshops, organisational guidance, speaking and collaborative projects.
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Jocelyn Burnham has worked with 90+ cultural, heritage and educational organisations in the UK and internationally.
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What participants say
Thanks to you for such a brilliant opening session. We were all amazed that you kept us engaged for three hours! I felt energised by the end.
The workshop managed to be inclusive towards all attitudes towards AI, whether positive, apprehensive or strongly opposed, with no pressure to change your existing view.
Jocelyn did a fantastic job of showing us what we could do with AI, in a playful and engaging way. I have come away with knowledge of new tools and the confidence to experiment creatively.
An exciting, objective and fun introduction to the complex world of AI. Presented with an open mind and the promotion of curiosity.
Jocelyn was an entertaining, generous and informative speaker. Her enthusiasm for her subject was irresistibly infectious and she got even the most unwilling in the room interacting with AI.
I was ambivalent and nervous about attending, but Jocelyn led it with great sensitivity and an impressive neutrality, focussing on both positives and negatives in a welcoming manner.
Selected projects and partnerships
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2025 to 2026Let's Get Real: AI
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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2023 to 2026Goose: An AI-driven peer learning platform for the UK heritage sector
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
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2025Oakley x IoDF: Artifacts From The Future Innovation Lab
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, the London Symphony Orchestra, Tate, the Church of England, the Goethe-Institut, Historic Royal Palaces, Shakespeare's Globe, RADA, Kew, and Bloomberg Philanthropies to produce bespoke AI workshops, resources, and board advisory sessions, and has delivered over one hundred AI workshops and learning programmes for organisations across the UK and internationally. She devised Goose, a peer-learning platform for the heritage sector awarded £250,000 by the National Lottery Heritage Innovation Fund, 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.
Featured Media
Featured guest, AI voice and ethics | LBC News Radio (July 2026)
Featured in Wonka Netflix show faces backlash for AI-generated Gene Wilder voice | BBC News (July 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)
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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