Please join us for a special series of short presentations about AI, art, and creative industries.

This event is partnered with the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University (Australia) and the Laboratoire Paragraphe at Université Paris 8-Vincennes-Saint Denis (France).

Monday 14 October 2024
Melbourne time : 5-7pm
Paris time : 8-10am

Register to attend using this form, by 5pm Friday 12 October (Melb time).

https://forms.gle/2S36Lz9cji6VU7tZ9

The Zoom link will be shared a few hours before the event.

If you are interested in presenting your work in a future symposium, please let us know !

Convenors :

Daniel Binns (RMIT University)

Everardo Reyes (Univ. Paris 8)

Presentations

Transnational Generative Narrative
Samuel Szoniecky (Univ. Paris 8)

This project is a transnational, interdisciplinary workshop that invites graduate and advanced undergraduate students from their respective American and French universities to work together to create generative multimedia narratives.

Collaboration or Collusion ? The Music Industries and GenAI
Samuel Whiting (RMIT)

GenAI was met with immediate hostility by the US film and TV sectors, with SAG-AFTRA and the WGA responding directly to the threat of AI throughout last year’s strikes. Alternatively, the music industries have taken a more collaborative approach to working with GenAI. Is this an overcorrection to the technophobia of the Napster/piracy era, or simply a lack of organised labour ?

Imagining War with AI : An Experiment in Educational Semiotics
Antonio Santangelo (Univ. Turin, Italy)

Can generative AI be used in education to contrast the spread of ideological narratives, instead of favoring it ? In a comparative research on the representation of the last Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Italy and Iran, I show how visual semiotics can be used to inspire the prompting activity of young teenagers of the two countries to help them create their own images, so that they convey and share their vision of the world.

Slow down time
Mitch Goodwin (University of Melbourne)

By using curatorial and literary methods (ie. anti-prompt engineering techniques) Slow Down Time takes the form of a conceptual art intervention, raising urgent questions around creative authorship, cultural heritage, data integrity and the means of production in the age of AI accelerationism.

Taking the Fight to Big Tech : Content Protection and Compensation in the Age of GAFAM
Matthieu Quiniou (Univ. Paris 8)

Both Australian and French media have pushed back against the use of their content in the automated news feeds of the GAFAM. The rise of generative AI amplifies this phenomenon and raises questions about the protection and compensation for creators whose works are used to train AI models.
Profile : https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthieu-quiniou-4587a831

Transhumanism gone bad
Ian Haig (RMIT)

Messed up and damaged human bodies in a sea of idealized bodies on social media, errors, glitches, failed biology, transhumanism gone bad and malfunctioning Elon Musk neuralink brain chips, AI mutations and AI diseases.