RDT Keywords Project: Creativity
What does creativity mean in the age of generative AI?
- Date
- 9 December 2024
- Time
- 15:00 -17:00
- Location
- Bushuis/Oost-Indisch Huis
- Room
- Workshop Space
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is radically changing how we perceive the relations between humans and machines. For the first time in history, humans are not the only ones anymore to make coherent readable text, generate images that we like to look at or finish the music of the last Beatles song. AI offers possibilities to the creative industry while at the same time putting pressure on (already precarious) creative jobs, which were so far supposed to be immune from technological innovations.
Generative AI makes it easy to produce large amounts of content, while at the same time making it harder for us to believe our own eyes and ears. New forms of governance will emerge to address these changes. While we have to tackle all these new social challenges and we also have to re-think our fundamental understanding of humans and creativity.
We invite three scholars from different academic disciplines to share their understanding of creativity, and we encourage an UvA-wide audience to join the conversation.
Speakers
- Monika Kackovic: Associate Professor FEB and coordinator of the MSc BA Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Creative Industries (EMCI) program.
- Claudio Celis Bueno: Assistant Professor in New Media and Digital Cultures and co-coordinator of the AI and Cultural Production research group.
- Christoph Finkensiep: Assistant Professor in Generative AI in the Arts, and cognitive scientist at the Music Cognition Group.
The afternoon is moderated by Nanne van Noord, Assistant Professor of Visual Culture and Multimedia in the Multimedia Analytics Lab.
Programme
15:00-17:00 Short presentations by the invited speakers and open discussion
17:00 – 17:45 Time to network and meet colleagues from different UvA-disciplines
This is an on-site only event. Secure your spot by signing up:
Project background
Inspired by Raymond Williams's original work on keywords, our RDT Keywords Project aims to explore how we discuss society and culture in the digital era. In every edition, we look into a specific concept seeking to understand its diverse interpretations across disciplines, such as 'responsibility', 'platform', 'algorithm', or 'culture'.
