AHK Culture Club | November 7th, 2023

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In this session, coordinated by Claudio Celis Bueno, Ada Popowicz, and Pei-Sze Chow, we explored the intricate relationship between generative AI technologies and the notion of creativity.

The main aim was to collectively reflect upon the conditions of creativity today: Is creativity merely a combinatorial process? Can we speak of a sociotechnical distribution of creativity? What does it mean that creativity becomes an industry and a form of labour?

Using Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s ‘systems theory of creativity’ and Leah Lievrouw’s ‘diagram of mediation’, we structured the workshop around the question: where is creativity in the context of generative AI?