As AI becomes an increasingly common part of creative work and cultural production, new questions emerge about art, agency, and automation. In this #frAIday, Dr. Charlotte Kent introduces a new research project exploring these questions from cultural and global perspectives.
You can participate via Zoom or join us on site at UmArts Research Studio, Arts Campus, where the speaker will be present.
Welcome!
Arts, agency and automation: this new research project aims to investigate the global shared concerns around the widespread use of large model generators and their creative outputs. How are web based softwares impacting culture and art, and how are governments and regulatory agencies thinking about these impacts on society more generally?
This research project is just starting - after a delay due to American administration changes in funding priorities - but the goal posts are shifting all the time as AI use by different sectors of society changes. How do global differences in individualistic or collectivist cultures reshape how we think about agency in relation to automation?