[Commlist] CfP: 4S Open panel on Creativity and AI

Pranjali J Mann and Alberto Lusoli are pleased to share the CfP for our 
*open panel *at the upcoming *4S conference* in Seattle (September 3 – 7 
2025).
The deadline to submit a 250-word abstract is January 31.
**
*Artificial creativity? Examining values and conceptualizations of 
creativity as embedded in Generative Artificial Intelligence models*
**
Innovation and creativity have been used as levers to govern human 
labor, structure workplaces, and implement production technologies in 
what has been variously labelled as post-Fordist, disordered, and 
aesthetic capitalism.
The history of the creative class has become intertwined with the 
development of information and communication technologies, which opened 
(seemingly) new possibilities for creative experimentation. From desktop 
publishing to the rise of commercial internet, the emancipatory 
potential of digital means of production and communication furthered 
such imaginaries and visions of autonomous, non-alienated creative 
labor. This seems to have been reiterated in recent years with the 
affirmation of social media, and the commercial success of Generative 
Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). Although the current GenAI tools can 
only produce derivative works by mining large datasets of multimedia 
content, their creative potential—real or imagined—raises critical 
questions about conceptualization of creativity, which is ever-changing 
to better fit its (technologically) modelled and bounded nature. We ask, 
how does understandings of creativity fit within the current development 
of GenAI technologies? Further, to what extent do cultural and creative 
commodities generated by AI reflect or depart from predominant styles 
and trends that are found in the datasets on which these tools are 
trained? What would automation of creative labor mean in such contexts?
We welcome papers dealing with questions and theories at the 
intersection of creativity, labor, and computation. The panel discusses 
shifts, including but not limited to, the workplace, creative industry, 
technology and AI. Exploring historical dimensions and underpinning 
assumptions about technologically mediated creativity, it poses 
questions about the influence of AI on creative expression and cultural 
production.

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    *Organizers*: Pranjali J Mann ((_pjm13 /at/ sfu.ca)
    <mailto:(pjm13 /at/ sfu.ca)>_), Alberto Lusoli ((_alusoli /at/ sfu.ca)
    <mailto:(alusoli /at/ sfu.ca)>_), Digital Democracies Institute, Simon
    Fraser University.
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    *Submission deadline*: January 31
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    *Submission platform*:
    _https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php
    <https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php>_
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    *Panel ID*: 127




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