EVA London 2024 Symposium
Monday, 8 July 2024
Computation, AI, and Creativity
| Tula Giannini (Co-Chair) | Jonathan P. Bowen (Co-Chair) |
| Pratt Institute School of Information New York, USA http://sites.google.com/view/tgiannini |
London South Bank University School of Engineering London, UK http://www.jpbowen.com |
| giannini@pratt.edu | jonathan.bowen@lsbu.ac.uk |
Presentations
| Computation, AI, & Creativity 1 Chair: Jonathan Bowen |
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| Catherine Mason | A Quest for Creative Collaboration: George Mallen and members of the early Computer Arts Society |
| Tula Giannini | The Intersection of Arts and Computational Culture: Tangible and digital realms |
| Computation, AI, & Creativity 2 Chair: Tula Giannini |
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| Nick Lambert | Computer Arts Society: Charting present to future |
| Sean Clark | The EVA London Conference Archive |
| Ann Borda | Serious Games Embracing Activism and AI: A transformative shift |
| Susan Hazan | What is new in AI – more of the same or an AGI breakthrough? |
Overview
This Symposium explores themes of the creative digital arts and artificial intelligence (AI) concerning developments in computational culture. The speakers are all contributors to two new books in the Springer Series on Cultural Computing. The associated paper provides some background to the increasing use of AI in the context of digital and computational culture, specifically in the arts, including statements from the authors’ viewpoints and experiences. These cover diverse issues based on the varied backgrounds and expertise of the contributors.
After the two main presentations by editors of the books, there were additional shorter presentations by Nick Lambert, Sean Clark, Ann Borda (video), and Susan Hazan (video in a later session), all book chapter authors.
Springer book stand
A bookstand organised by Helen Desmond of Springer was also displayed, especially covering the Springer Series on Cultural Computing.
Background
The Symposium includes invited speakers as part of the EVA London 2024 Conference. It continues a series from the previous seven EVA London Symposiums held since 2016.
The Symposium series initially started in association with the Pratt Institute London Summer School, with an emphasis on digital culture and “digitalism” or “digitality”. A collaboration with the Royal College of Art developed, providing an artistic and philosophical angle to the Symposium. Aspects of digital culture continue in this year’s Symposium, which considers the theme of “Computation, AI, and Creativity”. The speakers for this 2024 Symposium come from varied backgrounds, bringing their own perspectives to the overall theme. All are editors/authors for two books in the Springer Series on Cultural Computing, which were formally launched in the evening. Further chapter authors gave presentations in the afternoon.
Books launch
The books were launched in the evening as follows:
- 6pm-8.30pm, Monday 8 July 2024 – Books Launch event (free Eventbrite registration required). The two books are:
- The Arts and Computational Culture: Real and Virtual Worlds (edited by Tula Giannini and Jonathan Bowen) – indexed on DBLP
- Creative Simulations: George Mallen and the Early Computer Arts Society (edited by Catherine Mason) – indexed on DBLP
See also the detailed conference programme. An open-access Symposium summary paper is available in the EVA London 2024 conference proceedings under DOI 10.14236/ewic/EVA2024.1