Dr. MATTHEW MAXWELL

Flight Club is short film made with a combination of AI tools and techniques.  A playful, mysterious urban fantasy about awakening and possibility – and how embarressing it is to discover you have a superpower. After discovering he can fly, an ordinary man is drawn into a hidden world hovering above London’s streets. As wonder gives way to danger, he must decide whether his extraordinary gift offers escape, belonging or something more unsettling.

On Shakespeare Day, 2025 we staged a fusion of classical literature and artificial intelligence, introducing AI to Shakespeare at 55 Curtain Road in Shoreditch. Curtain Road connects the historical sites of the first two Shakespearean theatres. It runs north from the Brobdingnagian hulks of Worship Street into the tangle of alleys and medieval street layout north of Great Eastern Street. The space provided large glass walls, ideal for video projection. While a 15-metre wall hosted 12 2-D images 

I'm currently working with with Director/Choreographer Michael Laub on a reworking of Richard Crane's solo work "Out of Sorts" (1999).  This excerpt brings together the narrator – older, if not wiser – with the spectre of the "love of his life". The work combines live performance with archival footage of the orginal performance, with AI generated sequences bridging time, recollection, and memory.

Emma from Spark and Matthew discuss the potential of AI as a creative partner, with Matthew sharing his work as a Ph.D. candidate in creative AI. He also shares his professional journey, from being an artist to working in digital marketing and advertising agencies, and his recent transition to studying AI. The session aims to inspire and provide practical insights on using AI creatively.