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[Commlist] CfP: "Artificial Creativity" special issue in 'Transformations'

Wed Dec 23 09:12:58 GMT 2020





CfP: Special issue “Artificial Creativity”


Special issue of "Transformations: Journal of Media, Culture and Technology", in collaboration with Medea research lab, Malmö University, Sweden.

http://www.transformationsjournal.org/calls-for-papers/

Guest editors are Dr. Bojana Romic and Dr. Bo Reimer, Malmö University, Sweden.

This special issue (#36) of “Transformations” entitled “Artificial Creativity” aims to stir a discussion about the cultural, societal, and ethical aspects of robots or AI engaged in creative production.

Machines engaged in creative activities can be traced back to Pierre Jaquet-Droz’s automata The Writer and Musical Lady (1770s), which involved calligraphic writing and the performing of music respectively. In the 1950s, Jean Tinguely’s Méta-matics produced generative artworks, in response to the long-standing questions about the role of the artist.

Most recently, a number of artworks have featured robots that draw (Robotlab), paint (Moura), or make music (Weinberg, 2020). It has been announced that the 10th Bucharest Biennale in 2022 will be “curated” by Jarvis, an AI system created by Spinnwerks, Vienna (FlashArt, 2020).

These tendencies provoke at least two lines of inquiry. On one hand, what are the possibilities and potential pitfalls of AI technologies in the cultural sector? For example, AI makes its recommendations and choices based on its exposure to large databases, and yet worries pertain about the “increasing automation of the aesthetic realm”, that might, over time, reduce cultural diversity (Manovich, 2017).

On the other hand, AI technologies encourage debate about the meaning and purpose of human creativity (Gunkel, 2017). The title of this special issue is a playful rendering of the term artificial intelligence, which also serves as a reminder that technological innovations are often ripe with organismic language (Jones, 2017; Boden, 2004).

The call for papers invites researchers from different areas of expertise, including but not limited to: creative arts research, science and technology studies (STS), media and communication studies, critical cultural studies, humanities, human-robot interaction (HRI), ethics of technology, design anthropology, social sciences, gender studies, posthumanism, architecture, game studies, and voice interface design.

We especially encourage submissions rooted in the humanities, with a focus on robots (i.e. embodied AI) invested in creative/artistic labour. We also welcome submissions that critically address the contested terms “artificial intelligence” and “creativity”.

“Transformations” in an independent, open-access, blind-peer reviewed electronic journal, with no author charges (APCs).

Abstracts (400 – 500 words excluding references) are due 5 February 2021, with a view to submit articles by 31 May 2021.

Abstracts should be forwarded to: (bojana.romic /at/ mau.se)


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