Empathic AI – Art shapes Industry Creative Economies as a key driver for innovation and impact
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Empathic AI – Art shapes Industry
Creative Economies as a key driver for innovation and impact
July 2
Digital symposium
On July 2nd, Germany’s Federal Government’s Centre of Excellence for the Cultural and Creative Industries (Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes) and the European Commission‘s S+T+ARTS initiative will examine how cultural and creative industries, and in particular the arts, contribute to overcoming urgent societal and environmental challenges. The CCI offer approaches which reshape the relationship between people & digital technologies, recognise empathy as the driving force behind technology development and promote art and creativity as sources of innovation in all industries. The hybrid symposium “Empathic AI – Art creates Industry”, will bring together experts from the creative industries and the arts, technology, policy-makers and industry to discuss, inspire and experiment with art and artificial intelligence (AI).
On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the S+T+ARTS – innovation at the nexus of Science, Technology, and the Arts initiative of the European Commission (General Direction Connect), the symposium will also be marked by the opening of the exhibition NEAR FUTURES AND QUASI-WORLDS at the STATE Studio Berlin. For this purpose there will be the possibility of a hybrid tour of the exhibition on July 2, and on July 3 there will be an opportunity to attend discussions between artists and scientists.
Which impact do the cultural and creative industries, and in particular the arts, generate for the development of innovations between industry, people and technology?
The cultural and creative sector and more specifically the arts play a key role in a European approach to AI that is significantly different from that of other relevant global players and based on EU’s culture and humanistic values. Artistic contributions could inform us on maintaining a healthy balance between humans and machines. Creativity and aesthetics become key not only to facilitate dialogues on the role of technology in our lives but to better implement a new generation of empathic digital technologies.
The aim is to show how important art and the creative industries are at the interfaces with industry, whether as a driver of innovation, as a value-driven impulse generator or in its strive to develop new future-oriented business models not the least those triggered by the rethinking of our lives and the role of digital in the current Corona crisis.
Programme
Moderation: Fernanda Parente
13.30 – Opening and welcome from the hosts
14.00 – NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS Exhibition tour
Manuel Cirauqui (Curator and Director, Eina/Idea, Barcelona)
14.25 – Break
14.30 – Dialogue I
Refik Anadol (Artist, Director, UCLA Faculty)
Julia Koerner (Designer)
14.55 – Break
15.00 – Panel I
Moderation: Claudia Schnugg (Researcher and Curator)
Dr. Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament, EPP)
Prof. Vladan Joler (Academic, Researcher and Artist, University of Novi Sad and SHARE Foundation)
Dr. Diana-Alina Serbanescu (Teamlead, Interdisciplinary Researcher and Artistic Director, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society)
Dat Tran (Head of AI, Axel Springer AI)
Patrick van der Smagt (Director of AI Research Lab, Volkswagen Group)
15.45 – Break
15.50 – Performance
Moritz Simon Geist (Performer, Musicologist, and Robotics engineer)
16.20 – Break
16.30 – Dialogue II
Agnieszka Kurant (Conceptual interdisciplinary artist) + tbc.
16.55 – Break
17.00 – Panel II
Moderation: Christian Rauch (Founder & Managing Director, STATE Studio)
Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (Artist)
Reinhard Karger (Corporate Spokesman, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI)
Christian Mio Loclair (Creative director, Waltz Binaire) + tbc.
17.45 – Break
17.50 – Closing
The event is organized by the Federal Government’s Centre of Excellence for the Cultural and Creative Industries and the European Commission’s S+T+ARTS initiative.
We will stream the event live and on social media.
We are looking forward to you and your questions! Registration in advance is not required.