Dear all,
Pranjali J Mann and I are pleased to share the CfP for our open panel at the
upcoming 4S conference in Seattle (September 3 7 2025).
The deadline to submit a 250-word abstract is January 31.
Artificial creativity? Examining values and conceptualizations of creativity
as embedded in Generative Artificial Intelligence models
Innovation and creativity have been used as levers to govern human labor,
structure workplaces, and implement production technologies in what has been
variously labelled as post-Fordist, disordered, and aesthetic capitalism.
The history of the creative class has become intertwined with the development
of information and communication technologies, which opened (seemingly) new
possibilities for creative experimentation. From desktop publishing to the
rise of commercial internet, the emancipatory potential of digital means of
production and communication furthered such imaginaries and visions of
autonomous, non-alienated creative labor. This seems to have been reiterated
in recent years with the affirmation of social media, and the commercial
success of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). Although the current
GenAI tools can only produce derivative works by mining large datasets of
multimedia content, their creative potentialreal or imaginedraises critical
questions about conceptualization of creativity, which is ever-changing to
better fit its (technologically) modelled and bounded nature. We ask, how does
understandings of creativity fit within the current development of GenAI
technologies? Further, to what extent do cultural and creative commodities
generated by AI reflect or depart from predominant styles and trends that are
found in the datasets on which these tools are trained? What would automation
of creative labor mean in such contexts?
We welcome papers dealing with questions and theories at the intersection of
creativity, labor, and computation. The panel discusses shifts, including but
not limited to, the workplace, creative industry, technology and AI. Exploring
historical dimensions and underpinning assumptions about technologically
mediated creativity, it poses questions about the influence of AI on creative
expression and cultural production.
Organizers: Pranjali J Mann (pjm13@sfu.ca), Alberto
Lusoli (alusoli@sfu.ca), Digital Democracies Institute,
Simon Fraser University.
Submission deadline: January 31
Submission platform:
https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php
Panel ID: 127
We look forward to receiving your abstracts.
Best,
Alberto Lusoli and Pranjali J Mann
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