Our research team presented two projects at the 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’24) in Jönköping, Sweden. Gardening Frictions in Creative AI: Emerging Art Practices and Their Design Implications analyses Nordic artists’ frictional experiences with AI in art-making, and… Read more: Creative-AI research presented at ICCC’24

Our short paper “Uncovering Challenges and Changes in Artists’ Practices as a Consequence of AI” will be presented as a part of the upcoming GenAICHI2024 workshop on May 11, 2024. Abstract: Artistic uses of AI technologies are fast gaining prominence… Read more: Upcoming paper: Uncovering Challenges and Changes in Artists’ Practices as a Consequence of AI

Our paper “Ethnographic Considerations and Critical Reflections on the Impacts of AI on Traditional Irish Music”, authored by Anna-Kaisa Kaila and colleagues at the MUSAiC team, Elin Kanhov and Bob L. T. Sturm, will be presented at the British Forum… Read more: Presentation at Ethnomusicology conference in Cork

As part of the monthly MUSAiC meetups and in collaboration with Museum of Artificial Intelligence, Kaila moderated a panel discussion on AI and Music in Stockholm on February 21, 2024. The panelists included Avid Fayaz (KTH AI Society), Marit Woody… Read more: Panel on AI and Music at Museum of Artificial Intelligence

Kaila and Sturm were featured in an article on AI and music in the December issue of the classical music magazine Opus Magasin (no. 121).

Provocation paper authored by Kaila, Holzapfel and Sturm: “Are we solving the wrong problems – and doing harm in the process?“ was presented at the AI, Music and Creativity Conference in Sussex, UK. Recording of the talk is available at… Read more: Presentation at AIMC

Our student-led study “Upcoming ICCC (International Conference of Computational Creativity) paper: “”How to Make AI Artists Feel Guilty in a Good Way? Designing Integrated Sustainability Reflection Tools (SRTs) for Visual Generative AI” has been accepted to the upcoming ICCC (International… Read more: Upcoming paper: “How to Make AI Artists Feel Guilty in a Good Way? Designing Integrated Sustainability Reflection Tools (SRTs) for Visual Generative AI” at ICCC (International Conference of Computational Creativity)

Our student-led study “The Green Notebook – A Co-Creativity Partner for Facilitating Sustainability Reflection in AI Art Practices” has been accepted to the upcoming ACM IMX conference as early-stage research paper. Abstract “AI is becoming increasingly popular in artistic work.… Read more: Upcoming ACM IMX paper: “The Green Notebook – A Co-Creativity Partner for Facilitating Sustainability Reflection in AI Art Practices”

Since September 2021, we have produced several publications related to the environmental impact of AI arts. This post collects and summarises our key advances in the domain. On the Environmental Impact of AI Art(s) A wide variety of creative practitioners… Read more: Research Advances in Environmental Sustainability and Creative-AI

In June, we are organising a workshop at the ICCC ’23 conference on the theme “Fictional Abstracts: Ethics, Sustainability, and Creative-AI Futures”. The workshop invites participants to develop perspectives and sensitivities on the futures of AI-enabled computational creativity and to critically reflect on the assumptions, methods, and tools for enabling (and disabling) such futures, with a particular focus on questions of ethics and sustainability. 

Description of the Workshop  There has been an increasing interest in discussing implications of AI technologies in terms of ethics and sustainability. This workshop brings such questions into focus by exploring questions of ethics and sustainability through the use of… Read more: Workshop @ WASP-HS Humanity & Society ’23 Conference: Fictional News Articles: Ethics, Sustainability, and Politics of AI Futures

The paper titled “Ethically Aligned Stakeholder Elicitation (EASE): Case Study in Music-AI” has been accepted to the New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference (NIME) 2023.

Reflections on visiting an exhibition on Ai-art in EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art in Finland.

We spent three days devoted to analysing, criticising and broadening the AI transformation of music at the MUSAiC Festival in Stockholm.

Seminar for PhD students to present their planned, ongoing, and publishable work.

Workshop organised in collaboration with “Transisting” Multimedia Art Exhibition in Gothenburg.

dialogues seminar with artist Albena Baeva and composer Sam Salem.

A course in Umeå discussing how culture, identity, and technology are shaped in mutual interaction.

Notes on interdisciplinarity at WASP-HS Winter Conference.

A special session at the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2021) on the topic of Ethical Issues in Music Ai – Perspectives on authorship with creative artificial intelligence.