In a time of rapid technological progress and increasing use of AI technologies for creative outputs, making space for theoretical reflection and historical positioning is equally important. The impact of generative AI models on creative practice is significant: while in the past, designing a single version of an artifact was a tedious task, today, generative AI systems allow artists and designers to create entire design spaces of solutions for a given concept much easier. In a sense, artifacts move from being ‘expensive’ or difficult to make, to being ‘cheap’ or easy to make.

When using the generative AI tools popular today, creatives now curate training data and make choices from large design spaces (meaning they re-curate results produced by the generative AI). In this way, the work of creative practitioners who use AI becomes more similar to curatorial practice. This is not a small change, and does not come without its challenges that include large amounts of time spent curating new datasets before the AI system can be used, or choice fatigue for curating the design space produced with the help of the AI system, ethical considerations concerning the intellectual property of data, and environmental considerations regarding the energy used by AI systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Ways in which generative AI impacts definitions of creativity
  What are the advantages and challenges for creative work, and what impact does this have for establishing what is a creative output (meaning, what is the impact of generative AI on defining creativity).
• The changing nature of creative work
  How should generative AI be used in teaching for future generations of creative practitioners?
• Politics and legal systems around generative AI tools, intellectual property, and AI-generated content used in political communication
  What has been the impact of feminist and postcolonial critiques on data curation, storage and usage? What is the current legal status of intellectual and creative property in various countries? And what has been the impact of artworks engaged in political content production using AI tools (such as for example the work of the Dor Brothers). What have been important initiatives by artists in connection with copyright in recent years and have they been successful? And what does this all mean for artistic production – both that which makes of AI, and that which does not?
• Sustainability concerns and social challenges
  We also invite contributions that discuss AI in the context of sustainability concerns together with contributions that present or analyze AI art works from the last years, especially on current social challenges such as digital social transformation, environmental pollution, climate change, politics, identity, body image and others. Which artworks stand out due to their critical approaches? What are their topics, technologies, and aesthetics? What are the conditions for production and which recipients are they aimed at? Which works of art have been particularly successful and why?
• Artistic projects that make use of museum-owned datasets in AI-art
  What are particularly exemplary cultural initiatives that support the production and presentation of AI art?  What are the challenges?
  How have or can museums encourage artists to engage creatively with their collection data? How can artists provide new impetus for curating collection data?
• History of AI art and design, analysis of AI-generated artefacts that have shaped the field
  In addition, we want to give space to present analyses of earlier AI artworks and to reflect on the differences or thematic parallels to today’s AI art and the development of the AI art genre. Moreover, what are the dominant narratives with regard to AI in the arts and design, how have they changed, and what aspects are missing in them?

Viola Rühse, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria

Anca-Simona Horvath, Aalborg University, Denmark

Bio:

Anca Horvath is a guest researcher at the Research Laboratory for Art&Technology at Aalborg University and an assistant professor in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s Computational Media and Arts thrust.

In her research, Anca investigates the relationship between emerging technologies, especially computational design, digital fabrication, AI and bio-technologies, and creative practice, as well as their place in broader cultural contexts. As a reflective pratitioner, she uses design-based research as a main method of inquiry. She has a background in architecture and worked as an urban planner, architect, and computational designer in Romania and Denmark. Anca has designed products, buildings and urban areas.

• Viola Rühse, University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria
• Anca-Simona Horvath, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Brian Bemman, Durham University, UK

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