Recordings available from RE/FRAMING – Creativity / Culture / Computation
Author Natalie Campbell
Date 1 August 2024
On 2-4 July 2024, researchers, artists, industry partners and collaborators joined forces at RMIT University to explore the transformation of creativity and the creative fields by generative artificial intelligence tools at RE/FRAMING – Creativity / Culture / Computation.
Event organiser and ADM+S Affiliate Dr Daniel Binns said, “The key objectives of Re/Framing were to bring together a bunch of interesting and interested people to talk about generative AI and creativity, but also its impacts on creative industries and art practice.
“I wanted to demystify generative AI systems, to play and experiment with them and to use these experiences to think pragmatically and realistically about what we can achieve with these tools, and what new knowledge we can generate in this space.”
The roundtables, workshops and experimental modes of idea generation encouraged participants to incubate ideas around AI’s capabilities to solve complex creative and cognitive challenges, and provided space for groups to devise new methods for considering, reading, using, and analysing AI-generated media.
The program featured Bhautik Joshi, Senior Research Engineer from Canva, Jessie Hughes, Senior Creative Technologist and artist-in-residence at Leonardo.AI, as well as a number of expert academics working in the space.
“We played with Suno, the music generation tool, we also played with Leonardo.Ai, the image and motion generator, and we heard from a diverse group of people around the very real creative, economic, industrial, material and environmental challenges that this technology presents us with,” said Dr Binns.
“There’s definitely an appetite for this kind of work and collaboration. We’re currently organising two online seminars (details to come), where we’ll hear from some of the Re/Framing attendees about their research and interests, and in November one of the Re/Framing delegates Meg Herrmann has organized a spiritual follow-up event called Artificial Visionaries.”
Recordings from the RE/FRAMING event are now available to stream on ADM+S YouTube.
