AI in Arts & Culture
Conference
AI in Arts & Culture
Speakers: Laser 3.14 (Street Poet), Bastiaan Woudt (Artist), Merel van Helsdingen (Founder & Managing Director, Nxt Museum)
Moderator: Dave Clarke
We discuss candidly how AI impacts, helps and perhaps inhibits the conveyance of Art creation and curation within Arts and Culture. Emperors new clothes are always shiny at first but is this really the fruitful way forwards? How do the tools help in the creation of unique art in both visual and musical contexts. What makes a Museum choose an AI exhibit, how do artists cope with infringement of their rights, and what is classed as original art/ music as many AI tools are used without a second thought in the digital creative process.
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