Speakers:
Dr. Eleni Ikoniadou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (moderator)
Prof. Artemi-Maria Gioti, Institute for Open Arts, Mozarteum University, Austria
Lee Gamble, Independent Artist / Composer / Producer, UK
Prof. Danae Stefanou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract:
AI tools have been used in music composition and cognition research since the 1950s—from early algorithmic experiments to today’s advanced deep learning systems capable of analyzing audio features and generating entire songs and new synthetic voices. Artistic research, particularly within experimental music and visual arts, has both benefited from and contributed to the development of critical AI; challenging further dominant narratives around human versus machine authorship, digital versus physical embodiment, and the boundaries between real versus fictional.
This panel will explore how such collaborations reshape artistic practice while also probing the ethical, social, and aesthetic dimensions of algorithmic systems. How can artistic research function as critical research on AI? What possibilities open up from the creative inquiry of technology in relation to identity, style, engagement, community? And how do artists and researchers reimagine AI as a site of critique and resistance, even as the same tools are increasingly used for surveillance, control, and warfare? In the space between creation and computation, the panel asks what futures can be sounded, and which voices, ideas and encounters will emerge.
Panel 4- Critical AI and artistic research_1.mp4
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