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

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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