Welcome to a K3 seminar with Anuradha Reddy, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Interaction Design, K3.

The title of the seminar is Creative Leaps with AI through Critical Making.

This will be an online seminar, carried out through Zoom, and it will take place on Wednesday, September 22 at 10.15-12.00. Please join here: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/68487148015

Anuradha writes:

Based on my postdoc research, in this K3 seminar, I will present the main argument for a journal article I’m attempting titled “Artificial Everyday Creativity: Creative Leaps with AI through Critical Making.” I’m in the process of finalizing the draft, and I would appreciate your feedback! If you’d like to access the complete draft before the seminar, please email me (anuradha.reddy@mau.se).   

Abstract

The capabilities of humans and AI systems to imagine and perform alongside one another has given rise to new practices of ‘artificial creativity’. In this article, I argue that artificial creativity, where creativity is understood in the everyday sense of the term, shows the potential to empower individuals to interface and critically dialogue with computational systems. Reframed as artificial ‘everyday’ creativity, I focus attention on the curious, joyful and queer modes of creativity using hybrid materials for developing alternative pedagogies of code and computation. Through the interdisciplinary approach of ‘critical making’, I engage in hands-on design experimentation, i.e. crafting two unconventionally-coded artefacts that dialogue with AI systems, namely CryptoCrochet-Key and Internet of Towels. These artefacts are analysed through a four-pronged creativity framework to understand and reflect on the material translation processes underlying the artificial everyday creativity experiments. With rising concerns about AI’s role in misinformation, bias and discrimination, the discussion explores the generative value and limitations of artificial everyday creativity towards the broader goals of civic data literacy and user empowerment.