To watch: AI & Creativity

How can the diversity and freedom of cultural expression be protected in post-digital societies, and how can transparency and access be strengthened? Should attributes such as creativity, self-determination and freedom be ascribed exclusively to (specific) human beings?

​​The conference provides a common space for thought for actors from art, culture, science and activism and attempts to decode existing power relations and find collective approaches to change them.

This conference uses the 20th anniversary of the Austrian Commission for UNESCO as an opportunity to discuss the importance of the diversity of cultural expression in the digital environment for democratic societies and to raise awareness for their protection in the context of artificial intelligence.

Program (EN)

18:00

Welcome

Anke Schad Spindler, Educult, Alexandra Graupner, AIL, Martin Fritz, ÖUK

18:15

Magdalena Reiter, network policy expert and cultural worker, in conversation with Clemens Apprich; Vice-Rector and Head of the Department of Media Theory and the Peter Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, University of Applied Arts Vienna

19:00–20:30

Discussion with Carina Zehetmair, Ali Nikrang, Eva Fischer and Sofia Braga
Moderation: Giulia Pelillo

The digital revolution has the potential to unlearn anthropocentrism and reorganize power relations. In reality, things look different: The market-dominating platforms have privatized the sum of global creative content and siphoned it off for the development of ‘new’ systems. Dead celebrities are supposedly brought back to life post mortem by generative AI - AI-generated likenesses create deceptively real images of people and thus manipulate realities.The panel ‘Hybrid Realities’ focuses on the possibility of in-between spaces and poses the question of how creativity in the face of digital technologies can lead to new visions of alternative, democratic futures.