Dr Ali Hossaini

Biography

The New York Times describes Ali Hossaini as ‘a biochemist turned philosopher turned television producer turned visual poet’.  Hossaini serves as co-director of National Gallery X, a King’s partnership that explores the future of art and cultural institutions.  Previously Hossaini developed Connected Culture, an action research programme that tested cultural applications for 5G. A working artist, Hossaini’s genre-spanning career includes installations, performances and hundreds of media projects. Since 2018 Hossaini has worked with security think tank RUSI, and, in a special edition of its, he assessed the threat from AI from the perspective of biology.

 Research interests

• Engineering
• AI (Intelligent / Autonomous Systems)
• Systems biology

Further information

• Personal website
• National Gallery X
• The AI Gallery
• Connected Culture
• Wikipedia

Publications

• A Culture of Ecology: the 21st Century Renaissance
  Chapter in The Next Renaissance, Éditions Odile Jacob
• GROUPTHINK: Telepresence and agency during live performance
  Hossaini, A., Gingrich, O., Rahman, S., Grierson, M., Murr, J., Chamberlain, A., & Renaud, A., Sep 2022) 
  Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
• A functional BCI model by the P2731 working group: control interface
  Easttom, C., Bianchi, L., Nam, C. S., Hossaini, A., Zapala, D., 8 Dec 2021
  Brain Computer Interfaces
• Trust, Regulation and Human-in-the-Loop Artificial Intelligence within the European Region,
  Middleton, S. E., Letouzé, E., Hossaini, A., & Chapman, A., 30 Nov 2021, (Accepted / In press)
  Communications of the ACM.
• A Functional BCI Model by the P2731 working group: Physiology,
  Hossaini, A., Valeriani D., Nam C. S., Ferrante, R., Mufti Mahmud M., 5 Sep 2021
  Brain Computer Interfaces
• The BCI Glossary: a first proposal for a community review
  Antonietti, A., Balachandran, P., Hossaini A., Hu Y., Valeriani, D., 3 Sep 2021
  Brain Computer Interfaces
• A functional BCI model by the P2731 working group: Psychology
  Zapała, D., Hossaini, A., Kianpour, M., Sahonero-Alvarez, G., Ayesh, A., 22 Jun 2021,
  Brain Computer Interfaces
• A Functional Model for Unifying Brain Computer Interface Terminology
  Easttom, C., Bianchi, L., Davide Valeriani, D., Chang S. Nam, Hossaini, A., Zapała, D., Roman-Gonzalez, A., Singh, A. K., Antonietti, A., Sahonero-Alvarez, G., and Balachandran, P., 17 March 2021
  IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology
• Modelling the Threat from AI: Putting Agency on the Agenda,
  Hossaini, A., 29 Nov 2019
  RUSI Journal
• The AI Special Issue: An Introduction,
  Dear, K., Hossaini, A., 29 Nov 2019
  RUSI Journal
• The Manual of Digital Museum Planning
  Hossaini, A., Blankenberg, N., Lord, G. D., Michaels, C., 1 Apr 2017,
  ISBN-10: ‎1442278951

Lectures & panels

• What can science offer the arts?
  Nov, 2021, Medi-Culture Festival, London
• Agile Bureaucracy and a New Renaissance,
  Sep, 2021, Creative Bureaucracy Festival, Berlin
• Groupthink
  Sep, 2021, Ars Electronica Festival
• Can Machines Come Alive? What biology tells us about AI.
  Jun, 2021, Trusting Machines Conference, London
• The First: Conversation with Luca Viganò
  Jun, 2021,Trusting Machines Conference, London
• What an AI Sees
  Jun, 2021,Trusting Machines Conference, London
• 5G: Creating culture in times of confinement,
  May 2020, Ericsson Unboxed
• Adaptive Architecture, Mar 2021,
  Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London