AI in the Creative Industries: An Interdisciplinary Conference [One week left!]
[reposting as there's just over one week left to submit abstracts for our summer conference on AI]
AI in the Creative Industries: An Interdisciplinary Conference [EXTENDED DEADLINE]
7th June 2024 - Hosted by Futureworks, Manchester UK
Artificial Intelligence has advanced extremely rapidly over the past months. Responses have been polarized; with some predicting the end of the world and others celebrating a technology with the potential to create a new industrial revolution. The biggest difference between these new algorithmic technologies and those that preceded them are the potential for new AI models to generate creative content. Visual art, photography, literature and digital scripting have been produced by AI, to varying levels of success. To the existing debates around AI (questions of ethics, consciousness, or cyborg theory, for example) have arisen new problems regarding the role of art and the artist in the age, not of mechanical reproduction, but mechanical production. Can a robot be creative?
This conference aims to bring together researchers from across media studies, music and sound, the visual arts, video games, film and TV, animation, sociology, history, literature, politics, philosophy and aesthetic theory, to interrogate the growing role of AI in the creative industries, its potentials (both negative and positive), and how we are to react to the rise of AI as both tool and creator.
- AI creativity: is it truly creative?
- AI and transhumanism
- AI and the question of consciousness
- Copyright law and artificial intelligence
- Utilization of AI as a creative tool
- The depiction of AI in creative media
- The ethics of AI usage and its potential to help or harm
- The aesthetics of artificial intelligence