Bland bryggor och brott: Artificiell intelligens som berättarverktyg i en skärgårdsmiljö
(2025)
author(s): Alexander Skantze
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
“Docks and Dramas: Artificial Intelligence as a Storytelling Tool in an Archipelago Setting” is an critical exploration of my screenwriter and TV dramatist practice. Through various AI models, I try to generate an episode synopsis for The Sandhamn Murders, a series I have previously written for. Through these AI-generated texts, I seek a deeper understanding of creativity, artificial intelligence, and dramaturgical mechanisms.
The Sonic Atelier #2 – A Conversation with Robot Koch
(2025)
author(s): Francesca Guccione
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition continues the series The Sonic Atelier – Conversations with Contemporary Composers and Producers, dedicated to exploring the evolving role of the composer today. Through a Q&A format, the project examines how contemporary creators integrate composition, production, performance, and technology into their artistic practice.
This interview features Robot Koch, an award-winning composer, producer, and performer whose work spans electronic music, orchestral writing, and immersive audiovisual performance. Koch reflects on his hybrid identity as a creator, discussing the interplay between writing and production, the role of technology as an expressive tool, and the potential of spatial audio and immersive formats. The conversation also addresses the transformations of the music industry, the impact of artificial intelligence, and the importance of authenticity and craftsmanship in the creative process.
The Wager of the Algorithm: Towards a Performatic Gesture
(2025)
author(s): Peter Freund
published in: ArteActa – Journal for Performing Arts and Artistic Research
The fantasy of the algorithm and, by extension, artificial intelligence imagines that each performs by executing an operational task. Yet, based on its inherent computational structure, the digital performance fails to live up to its instrumental promise. This failure foregrounds an occasion for artistic intervention. “The Wager of the Algorithm: Towards a Performatic Gesture” presents a theoretical statement (illustrated via artwork by the author) in which the overall exposition underscores a dialectic within instrumental reason itself. The “prompt” names are a shorthand for the fulcrum of this problematic.
RETHINKING MUSICAL CREATIVITY: THE ETHICAL AND ARTISTIC CHALLENGES OF AI-GENERATED MUSIC
(2025)
author(s): Angelina Tarlovskaia
published in: Research Catalogue
As artificial intelligence continues to advance, its role in the creation of music has raised profound questions regarding the nature of authorship and the ethical implications of algorithmic composition.
Exploration of a fast-evolving relationship between music and AI broadens researches` horizons on the transformation of creative processes and the challenges it presents to traditional creativity. Delving deeper into the ethical considerations surrounding the ownership, originality, and emotional authenticity of machine-created music plays an important role in the understanding of modern music industry and helps to navigate creative development in today’s reality.
Ongoing ethical aspects of AI presence in music and creative industry show the importance and actuality of this topic.
This paper aims to provoke a deeper understanding of how AI is reshaping musical creativity and to encourage a critical dialogue about the future of art in a digitally driven world.
Glimpsing Speculative Utopias: Envisioning Futures
(2025)
author(s): Amna Qureshi
published in: HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
This exposition explores the concept of speculative utopias within artistic research, offering glimpses into potential futures at the intersection of artistic imagination and futures thinking. Developed as textual concepts, these speculative utopias serve as vehicles for envisioning inclusive and sustainable futures, addressing complex socio-economic, cultural, and environmental challenges. The study employs a multidisciplinary approach by integrating aerial photography of Iceland’s landscapes with futures thinking methodologies and artistic research practices. These photographs function not merely as documentation but as speculative utopias that prompt critical reflection on climate adaptation, socio-political transformation, and public engagement. A unique aspect of the research is the use of artificial intelligence (ChatGPT), which supported iterative narrative development and reflexive inquiry. Through this exploration, the research offers alternative visions for resilient futures catalysing transformative dialogue and deepening reflection on the politics of the present while imagining possibilities for the world to come.
When GPT Digested the Medium Hélène Smith
(2024)
author(s): Katerina Undo
published in: HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society
Exploring synergies between the study of the medium Hélène Smith at the turn of the 20th century and contemporary notions of subjectivity, artificiality and intelligence in the age of AI, the question of locating intelligence will not be a question with a binary answer in this paper. It will be shifted to multiple sites in an assimilative assemblage, exploring how identification might work from a rather metabolic side of the conversation. Weaving a thinking continuum on the evolving human-machine complexes beyond circular debates, Hélène Smith's ambiguous Martian writings are fed into GPT; an act intended as a metaphor and method for overcoming our binary contradiction of intelligence as either “natural” or “artificial”, ultimately generating new subjectivities, fluid variables or even contradictory insights. In this context, a meditation with speculative moments is attempted through human-machine inter-written texts, enacted through inter-twined speeches that reciprocally represent and interpret their own transitive nature.
The poetics of autopoiesis: visual arts, autonomy and artificial intelligence.
(2024)
author(s): bruno caldas
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
This exposition contains the manuscript and artistic components of the doctoral research project "The poetics of autopoiesis: visual arts, autonomy and artificial intelligence."
The project aimed to explore the limits of creative autonomy in face of recent developments in generative visual artificial intelligence.
DIGITAL RITES and EMBODIED MEMORIES
(2022)
author(s): Elena Giulia Rossi
connected to: EU4ART_differences
published in: Research Catalogue
Creativity at the crossroads of Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Alternative Economies, and Humanism, will be discussed by leading voices from the international scene at DIGITAL RITES and EMBODIED MEMORIES, EU4ART_differences Doctoral Summer School.
A group of researchers from different European capitals will meet in the Monastery of Casa San Silvestro in Monte Compatri (Rome Province) for an intensive program that will take them, and their research, to the limit between physical and digital space.
Since the talks and workshops organized by The Fine Arts Academy of Rome mean to contribute on the currently relevant debate on art practice and new technologies, the series of webinars will be free and open to the public through a registration link.
Excerpt from the Showcasing Event at Mengi
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Media in support of the article "Of altered instrumental relations: a practice-led inquiry into agency through musical performance with neural audio synthesis and violin" (Stefánsdóttir and Magnússon, 2025).
Outward Threads - Intuitive Computers / Rational Composers
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Juan Sebastián Vassallo
This exposition is in revision and its share status is: visible to all.
The project ‘Outward Threads’ is an artistic investigation rooted in music composition, integrating computational frameworks from machine learning and artificial intelligence to create new music. It seeks to develop a fresh approach to established compositional methodologies within computer-assisted composition, as well as incorporating novel tools. Some of these contributions, including the development of creative software tools, are discussed. Theoretically, the project examines various forms of creative cognition and their manifestation in Western art contemporary music composition, drawing insights from cognitive sciences and AI. These discussions provide a framework for presenting each composition within the project and serve as starting points for exploring individual creative processes, methodologies, and techniques. The goal is to deepen the understanding of these cognitive processes and their interactions in the creative process, aiming to bridge the gap between purely neurocognitive approaches and practice-based research. In a broader context, the project examines ethical aspects of music and composition and the composer’s role in society. Finally, it considers the impact of new technologies -particularly generative AI- on creative processes and discusses influential practitioners and current trends in the field.
B.O.D.Y. - the second skin
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Erika Matsunami
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Abstract:
The artistic research project "B.O.D.Y. - the second skin" (2023) explores the topic of correspondence for a new topic in theory and its material in art for the question of creativity in practice.
The artistic research method is an articulation of the spaces a, b, c, d, x, y, which is methodically explored.
"Space x" is a reflection of B.O.D.Y. - the second skin on the subject of correspondence, and "Space y" is a theoretical exploration of the theory of post-feminism.
This artistic research project "B.O.D.Y. - the second skin" (2023) is the research detail and advanced exploration of the artistic research "B.O.D.Y. (2010) - between auditory fiction and body reality.
The art project "B.O.D.Y. - the second skin" (2023) deals with issues of intersemiotic transposition in the transformative processes between different artistic media.
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“Docks and Dramas: Artificial Intelligence as a Storytelling Tool in an Archipelago Setting” is an critical exploration of my screenwriter and TV dramatist practice. Through various AI models, I try to generate an episode synopsis for The Sandhamn Murders, a series I have previously written for. Through these AI-generated texts, I seek a deeper understanding of creativity, artificial intelligence, and dramaturgical mechanisms.open exposition comments (0)
The fantasy of the algorithm and, by extension, artificial intelligence imagines that each performs by executing an operational task. Yet, based on its inherent computational structure, the digital performance fails to live up to its instrumental promise. This failure foregrounds an occasion for artistic intervention. “The Wager of the Algorithm: Towards a Performatic Gesture” presents a theoretical statement (illustrated via artwork by the author) in which the overall exposition underscores a dialectic within instrumental reason itself. The “prompt” names are a shorthand for the fulcrum of this problematic.open exposition comments (0)
This exposition contains the manuscript and artistic components of the doctoral research project "The poetics of autopoiesis: visual arts, autonomy and artificial intelligence." The project aimed to explore the limits of creative autonomy in face of recent developments in generative visual artificial intelligence.open exposition comments (0)
Creativity at the crossroads of Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Alternative Economies, and Humanism, will be discussed by leading voices from the international scene at DIGITAL RITES and EMBODIED MEMORIES, EU4ART_differences Doctoral Summer School. A group of researchers from different European capitals will meet in the Monastery of Casa San Silvestro in Monte Compatri (Rome Province) for an intensive program that will take them, and their research, to the limit between physical and digital space. Since the talks and workshops organized by The Fine Arts Academy of Rome mean to contribute on the currently relevant debate on art practice and new technologies, the series of webinars will be free and open to the public through a registration link.open exposition comments (0)