This event is organized by the research cluster funded by WASP HS, in collaboration with Bildmuseet and brings together researchers and artists. Through presentations, panels, a performance and an exhibition, we will discuss how issues of identity and creativity are challenged, articulated, performed and envisioned in the age of AI.
13.15: Welcome and introductions (Coppélie Cocq, Umeå University)
13.30-14.00: Bodies that “Glitch”: Reimagining identity and A.I. through embodied resistance (Onur Kiliç, Umeå University)
14.00-14.30: More-than-human aesthetics and visual politics of portrayal in creative AI (Petra Jääskeläinen, KTH)
14.30-15.00: Coffee
15.30-16.00: AI and Image: Critical Perspectives on Art and Cultural Heritage (Anna Foka and Jan Von Bonsdorff, Uppsala University)
16.00-16.30: Degenerative Influence: Feedback, Cognition, and Collapse in Autonomous Systems, Daniel Shanken, Umeå University
16.45-17.15: Exposing the Bias in Artificial Intelligence: The Machine Lexicon (audiovisual performance by Kıvanç Tatar, Chalmers)
9.00: Coffee
9.15-10.30: Panel discussion, Craft and AI. (Moderator: Karin Danielsson Umeå University, panelists: Alessandra Di Pisa, Associate Professor, Malmstens Linköping University; Agnieszka Knap, Senior Lecturer at Konstfack)
10.30-11: Coffee
11-12: Sarah Cook, Umeå University and University of Glasgow: Guided tour in the exhibition AI and the paradox of agency
12.00-13.00: Lunch break
13.00-13.30: Closing words and free time in the exhibition AI and the paradox of agency