RDT Keywords Project: Creativity

RDT Keywords Project: Creativity

Responsible Digital Transformations (RDT) is the interdisciplinary, UvA-wide community for research on the ethical, legal and societal aspects of digital technologies, and is excited to invite you to our RDT Keywords Project: Creativity.

In each edition of the Responsible Digital Transformations (RDT) Keywords Project, we explore the diverse interpretations of a certain concept or keyword across disciplines. In line with the current RDT campaign theme, this third edition will focus on the concept of 'Creativity’ in the age of generative AI.

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

• Dr. Monika Kackovic: Associate Professor FEB and coordinator of the MSc BA Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Creative Industries (EMCI) program.
• Dr. 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 Dr. 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

For more information on this event, click here.