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Identity and Creativity in the age of AI

Tue
12
May
Time Tuesday 12 May until Wednesday 13 May, 2026 at 13:15 - 13:30
Place Flexhallen – Bildmuseet

This event is organized by the research cluster AI Futures of Culture and Memory funded by WASP HS, in collaboration with Bildmuseet and brings together researchers and artists. Through presentations, panels, a performance and an exhibition, we will discuss how issues of identity and creativity are challenged, articulated, performed and envisioned in the age of AI.

Tuesday 12 May

13.15: Welcome and introductions (Coppélie Cocq, Umeå University) 
13.30-14.00: Bodies that “Glitch”: Reimagining identity and A.I. through embodied resistance (Onur Kiliç, Umeå University) 
14.00-14.30: More-than-human aesthetics and visual politics of portrayal in creative AI (Petra Jääskeläinen, KTH)
14.30-15.00: Coffee
15.30-16.00: AI and Image: Critical Perspectives on Art and Cultural Heritage (Anna Foka and Jan Von Bonsdorff, Uppsala University) 
16.00-16.30: Degenerative Influence: Feedback, Cognition, and Collapse in Autonomous Systems, Daniel Shanken, Umeå University 
16.45-17.15: Exposing the Bias in Artificial Intelligence: The Machine Lexicon (audiovisual performance by Kıvanç Tatar, Chalmers) 

Wednesday 13 May

9.00: Coffee
9.15-10.30: Panel discussion, Craft and AI. (Moderator: Karin Danielsson Umeå University, panelists: Alessandra Di Pisa, Associate Professor, Malmstens Linköping University; Agnieszka Knap, Senior Lecturer at Konstfack)
10.30-11: Coffee
11-12: Sarah Cook, Umeå University and University of Glasgow: Guided tour in the exhibition AI and the paradox of agency
12.00-13.00: Lunch break
13.00-13.30: Closing words and free time in the exhibition AI and the paradox of agency 

Organiser: Humlab, Bildmuseet
Event type: Other
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