This one-day workshop explores how the uptake of generative AI is changing cultural production and consumption around the globe, reigniting and also changing debates on the nature of creativity and its evolving trajectory. What is often forgotten in these debates are the wider social and cultural conditions these debates take place in. Through lightning talks, plenary discussions, and a fishbowl, participants discuss how issues pertaining to GenAI and job displacement, labor inequities, and the reorganization of creative processes play out in different parts of the world. A central question is how we can multiply our frames of reference in thinking through key concepts, such as creativity and its relations to equity and precarity, in this field of study. Addressing this question, participants will pay special attention to the ethical dilemmas in global collaborative research projects.

Participants: Thomas Poell, Claudio Celis Bueno, Paula Helm, Nuoyi Wang, Delfina Sol Martinez Pandiani, Tobias Blanke, Houda Lamqaddam, Gabriel Pereira, Bokar N'Diaye, Louis) Ravn, Lorena Rubia Pereira Caminhas, Rafael Grohmann, Zhen Ye, Smith Mehta, David Nieborg, Arturo Arriagada, Jeroen Werner, Sanne Bloemink