Creativity Unleashed

Human Roundtable on the Discussion of Future Hybrid Interfaces

Session abstract: Within the last year or two, creative technologies that leverage AI have become more popular than ever. They now– or will soon– play a prominent role in the creative process for many individuals with a wide range of backgrounds. In this session, participants will discuss their creative workflow and processes in all their diverse mediums and fields. How is AI technology used, how could it be used, or how shouldn’t it be used? After a break, the collective group will discuss how emerging technology could be designed to enable or support their workflows, perhaps generating a set of recommendations for ML engineers to design the next generation of tools.

Chair: Nicholas Guttenberg

Confirmed participants: Tim Otto Roth, Takeshi, Atsushi Masumori, André Holzapfel & Petra Jääskeläinen, Petra Gemeinboeck

Format:

• 5 minute session introduction

• 1 hour round table discussion

• 15 minute break

• Follow-up discussion and next steps
  

Navigating Indeterminacy & Experiential Experiment

Part 1: Navigating Indeterminacy
After rapidly rehearsing some fundamental mathematical, conceptual, and methodological challenges to present-day complexity science, we present possible alternatives for next-gen science of complex adaptive systems, drawing on Shannon, Wiener, Gill; Wittgenstein, James, Deleuze, Whitehead; Barad, Arendt; Stepney; Longo, Calude, Saari, Wolpert, Kauffman, and Montevil.

Part 2: Experiential Experiment
How to use computational media technologies as instruments to augment collective creative, enactive sensemaking by hybrid metabolic, social, and symbolic ensembles. Richly illustrated with examples from Synthesis and the Topological Media Lab.

Chair: Alyssa Adams

Speaker: Sha Xin Wei

Format: Talk, Q&A from participants, 15-minute break, open discussion.

• 5 minute session introduction

• Talk and interactive discussion + participation from audience

• 15 minute break

• Open discussion
  

Impact & Interactions with Humans

Session abstract: Creative technologies are growing and changing faster than we can write laws about them or understand how they could change our everyday lives. What are the major ethical, usage, rights, responsibilities, ownership, and access challenges that we currently face and/or may face in the near future? What do we need to do today to try to prevent major catastrophes?

‍Chair: Mahdi Khosravy

Part One Speakers: Dilrukshi Gamage, Christian Guckelsberger, Minoru Kuribayashi

Part One Format:

• 5 minute session introduction

• 5-10 minute talk per Part 1 speaker = ~40 minutes

• 30 minute panel discussion (where the audience asks the panelists questions)

• 15 minute break
  

Part Two Speakers: Petra Jääskeläinen, James Boyd, Joel Lehman

Part Two Format:

• 5-10 minute talk per Part 1 speaker = ~30 minutes
  

• 30 minute panel discussion (where the audience asks the panelists questions)
  

Creative Embodiment & the Creative Brilliance of Nature

Session abstract: Biology continually generates an endless number of bodies and structures, many of which are functional solutions to problems. How can we better understand biological creativity as a process that generates creative solutions to environmental problems, while also understanding the relationship between embodiment and the capacity and expression for creativity?

‍Chair: Lisa Soros

‍Speakers: Josh Bongard, Nick Cheney, Tim Taylor

‍Format:

• 5 minute session introduction

• 10 minute talk per speaker = ~40-60 minutes

• 30-45 minute panel discussion (where the audience asks the panelists questions)

• 15 minute break
  

• 30-45 minute open discussion