AI and the Creative Industries
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This collection brings together researchers from across media studies, music studies, the visual arts, film and TV, animation, sociology, history, literature, philosophy and aesthetic theory, to interrogate the growing role of AI in the creative industries, its potential (both negative and positive), and how we are to react to the rise of AI as both tool and creator. Artificial Intelligence has advanced extremely rapidly over the past years. Responses have been polarized; with some predicting the end of the world and others celebrating a technology with the potential to create a new industrial revolution. The biggest difference between these new algorithmic technologies and those that preceded them are the potential for new AI models to generate creative content. Visual art, photography, literature and digital scripting have been produced by AI, to varying levels of success. To the existing debates around AI (questions of ethics, consciousness, or cyborg theory, for example) have arisen new problems regarding the role of art and the artist in the age, not of mechanical reproduction, but mechanical production. Can a robot be creative?
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Joseph Darlington is Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Animation with Illustration at Futureworks, Manchester. He is the author of The Experimentalists (2021) and Christine Brooke-Rose and Post-War Literature (Palgrave, 2021), as well as a number of other books, novels, and journal articles. He is co-editor of the Manchester Review of Books.
Content
1.-Introduction.-2.-Fun with AI.-Digital Technology Through a Lens of Comics-Based Research.-3.- "To... Errr. Is Human?": Mistakes, Meaning and (Critical) Friendship in a Context of AI.-4.-MemórIA.- the reconstruction of the past through Artificial Intelligence.-5.- AI Disruption in Creative Industries.-Balancing Threats and Opportunities.-6.- Authorship + Art + AI.- Forging Collaborative Creativity.-7.-Will AI Art Save us from AI Technology?.-8.-The Trace of Labour in AI-Generated Artworks.-9.-Sculpting Silhouettes in Binary Sands.-Exploring the Generative Visual AI relationship with Fashion Narratives and Aesthetics.-10.-The Sound and Music of Artificial Intelligence (AI).-innovative tools and techniques that enhance the creative process.-11.-Writing Nonsense.- A Revolt Against the Machines or Learning Something from Nothing?.-12.-Synergy of AI and Creative Writing: Pedagogical and Professional Perspectives.-Creative Human-Machine Collaboration.- co-authoring the short drama screenplay with AI in a new production context of care.