[Commlist] CFP: AI in the Creative Industries: An Interdisciplinary Conference

AI in the Creative Industries: An Interdisciplinary Conference
[EXTENDED DEADLINE]

7th June 2024


Hosted by Futureworks, Manchester UK

Artificial Intelligence has advanced extremely rapidly over the past 
months. Responses have been polarized; with some predicting the end of 
the world and others celebrating a technology with the potential to 
create a new industrial revolution. The biggest difference between these 
new algorithmic technologies and those that preceded them are the 
potential for new AI models to generate creative content. Visual art, 
photography, literature and digital scripting have been produced by AI, 
to varying levels of success. To the existing debates around AI 
(questions of ethics, consciousness, or cyborg theory, for example) have 
arisen new problems regarding the role of art and the artist in the age, 
not of mechanical reproduction, but mechanical production. Can a robot 
be creative?


This conference aims to bring together researchers from across media 
studies, music and sound, the visual arts, video games, film and TV, 
animation, sociology, history, literature, politics, philosophy and 
aesthetic theory, to interrogate the growing role of AI in the creative 
industries, its potentials (both negative and positive), and how we are 
to react to the rise of AI as both tool and creator.


Abstracts for 20-minute papers are welcomed on subjects including, but 
not limited to:


· AI creativity: is it truly creative?

· AI and transhumanism

· AI and the question of consciousness

· Copyright law and artificial intelligence

· Utilization of AI as a creative tool

· The depiction of AI in creative media

· The ethics of AI usage and its potential to help or harm

· The aesthetics of artificial intelligence


Please submit 250 word abstracts with accompanying 50-word bio and 5 
keywords to organizer (joe.darlington /at/ futureworks.ac.uk) by 29th February 
2024. Submissions are encouraged from academics, postgraduate 
researchers and non-academic speakers alike. Creative practitioners are 
also welcome, as are those working in the production or utilization of AI.

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