Artificial creativity: Beyond the human, or beyond definition?

Jan Løhmann Stephensen

Artificial creativity: Beyond the human, or beyond definition?

Institut for Kommunikation og Kultur - Æstetik og Kultur

Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift/Konferencebidrag i tidsskrift /Bidrag til avis › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › peer review

Abstract

Creativity, this seemingly innocent (set of) notion(s) and interrelated practices, is loaded with politics and ideology. With current debates on and experimentation with AI-assisted ‘artificial creativity’, this fact becomes increasingly pertinent as these issues easily slip under the radar, especially given the extent to which both notions involved, ‘AI’ and ‘creativity’, over the last decades have been subject to exultant discourses that sometimes tend to blur the soberness of academic thought. Expanding upon Andreas Reckwitz’ Michel Foucault-inspired account of the historical invention of creativity and the so-called ‘creativity dispositif’ as well as upon Joanna Zylinska’s Vilém Flusser-inspired work on a posthuman conception of AI-generated art, it is argued that without due focus on both the contingency and proliferability of ‘creativity’, we might end up overlooking the potential ideological and political stakes in contemporary work on artificial creativity.

Originalsprog	Dansk
Tidsskrift	Transformations
Vol/bind	36
Sider (fra-til)	19-37
Antal sider	19
ISSN	1444-3775
Status	Udgivet - 2022
Begivenhed	Artificial Creativity: Virtual conference - Malmö University, Malmø (online) , Sverige Varighed: 19 nov. 2020 → 20 nov. 2020 https://mau.se/en/research/research-platforms/medea/conference-artificial-creativity/#accordion-56324

Konference

Konference	Artificial Creativity
Lokation	Malmö University
Land/Område	Sverige
By	Malmø (online)
Periode	19/11/2020 → 20/11/2020
Internetadresse	https://mau.se/en/research/research-platforms/medea/conference-artificial-creativity/#accordion-56324

Emneord

creativity
dispositif
post-anthropocentrism
definitions
ideology

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http://www.transformationsjournal.org/2022-issue-no-36-artificial-creativity/Licens: Ikke-specificeret

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Post-Creativity
Stephensen, J. L. (PI)
01/07/2016 → …
Projekter: Projekt › Forskning

3 Paper
2 Bidrag til bog/antologi
2 Konferencebidrag i proceedings
1 Tidsskriftartikel

Post-creativity and AI: Reverse-engineering our Conceptual Landscapes of Creativity
Stephensen, J. L., 2020, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC '20). Cardoso, F. A., Machado, P., Veale, T. & Cunha , J. M. (red.). Association for Computational Creativity, s. 326-333 8 s.
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Artificial creativity: Beyond the human, or beyond definition?

Abstract

Konference

Emneord

Adgang til dokumentet

Projekter

Post-Creativity

Publikation

Post-creativity and AI: Reverse-engineering our Conceptual Landscapes of Creativity

Post-creativity – beyond the human or much-too-human?

Post-creativity and AI

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