for "Artificial Intelligence and Possible Futures for the
Arts," the inaugural special issue of the a2ru/UNLV
online journal Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design,
and Media Higher Education.
Creativity, Empathy and AI: A National Summit on The Human-AI Creative Partnership
The City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts, in conjunction with Virginia Tech, Penn State, Carnegie Mellon, RISD, and a2ru present “Creativity, Empathy and AI: A National Summit on The Human-AI Creative Partnership” on Thursday, April 11 in Alexandria, at Torpedo Factory Art Center, and April 12 in Washington D.C.
The summit will drive conversation on the promise and challenges of the human-AI creative partnership, building on current platforms, conversations, experiences, and experiments in leveraging AI in the creative process. With practitioners and college/university educators at the nexus of creativity and AI, this will be the first time this sort of network will convene nationally to focus singularly on advancing human-computer creative partnerships to transform participatory teaching, learning and creative practice.
It will be a gathering of those at the forefront of leveraging technology for creative generation. The influence of AI has been widely felt across a wide range of artistic, expressive and creative domains. Across theater and performance, music, design and architecture, the fine arts, creative writing and the humanities, experts and practitioners have been crafting a point of view and policies at their universities, in their classrooms, in research, and in practice on how to explore the nuances, capture the promise, and confront the challenges of new AI technologies rather than avoiding them or regulating student use.
The evening of April 11th will include a special reception at Torpedo Factory Art Center, including a viewing of a live performance by Laptop Orchestra, in person and virtually.
The summit will focus on the use of AI as a collaborator in the creative process and how forms of computational co-creation will transform what is possible. It will bring together arts educators from creative writing and the visual, sonic, performing, and applied arts; technologists and innovators in creativity and AI; pedagogical experts in the arts focused human-AI and/or human-computer creative partnerships; and funders, industry experts, and policy makers invested in the conversation of human-AI and/or human-computer creative partnerships.
Residents and people who work in the City of Alexandria are invited to apply to take part in the Summit.