Decentralised Creativity and Agential Systems in Music

Conference at Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium

DAY 1 — Monday, 17 November 2025

Introduction 9:00–9:30
  • Introduction — Adam Łukawski and Martin Zeilinger
  • Posthuman Music: Creative Practices after AI and Blockchain (ERC Advanced Grant) — Paulo de Assis
Panel 1 Session 1 9:30–11:00
Chair: Martin Zeilinger
  • Agency and Synthetic Media: A New Musical Ontology of AI Music — Thor Magnusson
  • Sonic techno-ecologies and ethics of more-than-human data practices — Elin Kanhov & Petra Jääskeläinen
  • The Age of Agentfullessness — Christof Migone
Coffee Break Break 11:00–11:30
Keynote 1 Keynote 11:30–13:00 Future Art Ecosystems: Building a Fair and Dynamic AI Ecosystem through Creative R&D
Victoria Ivanova & Eva Jäger
Chair: Adam Łukawski
Lunch Break 13:00–14:00
Panel 2 Session 2 14:00–15:30 Chair: Martin Zeilinger
  • Listening After Computation: Visceral Abstraction, Suprasensible Experience, and the Temporality of Artificial Intelligence — David Cecchetto
  • Tessela: Navigating Electroacoustic Tessellations through Human–AI Co-Agency — Massimiliano Cerioni, Stefano Giacomelli, Lorenzo Ballerini, Alberto Gatti, Andrea Guidi
  • Virtual Voiɔɘƨ — Margarita Wenzel
Coffee Break Break 15:30–16:00
Keynote 2 Keynote 16:00–17:30 Dialectics of AI
Timothy Morton
Chair: Martin Zeilinger
Afternoon Break Break 17:30–18:30
Installations—Presentations Session 3 18:30–20:00 Chair: Adam Łukawski
  • Human Receiver: Sonic Scores in Cyber-Physical System — Chonglian Yu
  • (Location: Concert Hall, ground floor)
  • Tessela: Navigating Electroacoustic Tessellations through Human–AI Co-Agency — Massimiliano Cerioni, Stefano Giacomelli, Lorenzo Ballerini, Alberto Gatti, Andrea Guidi
  • (Location: Auditorium, 3rd floor)
  • Virtual Voiɔɘƨ — Margarita Wenzel
  • (Location: Red Room, 2nd floor)
Dinner Social 20:00–22:00

DAY 2 — Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Panel 3 Session 4 9:30–11:00 Chair: Martin Zeilinger
  • Immolable NFTs (imNFTs): Staging Artificial Ephemerality for Performative Digital Arts — Kosmas Giannoutakis
  • Empowering Decentralised Creativity: Integrating ORA into the Creative Process — Frances Liddell, Chris Elsden, Caterina Moruzzi, Ella Tallyn, Evan Morgan, Billy Dixon
  • Performative Transactions: Worlding Compositional Ecosystems — Adam Łukawski
Coffee Break Break 11:00–11:30
Keynote 3 Keynote 11:30–13:00 Ethnography of a data-making practice
Artemi-Maria Gioti
Chair: Adam Łukawski
Lunch Break 13:00–14:00
Keynote 4 Keynote 14:00–15:30 Synthetic Life: Art as living systems
Primavera De Filippi
Chair: Martin Zeilinger
Coffee Break Break 15:30–16:00
Concert—Presentations Session 5 16:00–18:00 Chair: Adam Łukawski
  • VLA + MLMLMLM — Lucy Strauss
  • Creative Feedback Loops: Musician-Informed Machine Learning in Performance — Umut Eldem, Giusy Caruso, Chiara Percivati, Adilia Yip
  • Quantum Fields Sound Synthesis (QFSS) — Robert Lisek
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