AI-driven ‘Black To The Future’ installation on giant screens at Outernet London

Outernet London will host a series of Black History Month activations in Central London throughout October, including an AI-driven look to the future.

The free-to-visit, floor-to-ceiling screens next to Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road station will feature productions commissioned to mark the annual celebrations of the Black community in the UK. Outernet is the most visited cultural attraction in the UK.

Black To The Future, produced by Media Stream AI and created by Olivia Ema and Samuel Adjaye, reimagines Black history as a living, evolving story – one that isn’t confined to the archives but written daily by the next generation. Showing from October 7 in Outernet’s flagship
space, it will look at legacy and roots using abstract, poetic visuals; present voices with real innovators, artists, scientists, shown through AI-enhanced video portraits; and “the history we
are yet to make”.

Christopher Kenna, founder and CEO of Media Stream AI, said: “The film unfolds in a surreal landscape where time bends and dissolves. Digital technologies become vessels, collapsing centuries into moments.

“The work reimagines how Black British history and culture is carried into the future, showing that the past is not behind us but encoded in our present and our becoming. At Media Stream AI, we believe the AI revolution will be the great equaliser. Giving access to art, media and creativity to all, and allowing the community to express itself in new imaginative ways.”

The Black History Month series also includes Carnival Through The Lens of Ian Watts – a powerful new photographic installation capturing 40 years of Notting Hill Carnival.

Find more details on the Outernet website here: