Machines – moving – music. A symposium on creative responses to AI

Artificial Intelligence in music raises fundamental questions about creativity, authorship, and human-machine collaboration. Among creatives there is a mixture of enthusiasm, skepticism, and uncertainty about AI’s potential and risks. In this symposium, we invite artistic responses to this mixture, to see what happens when artists collaborate with AI to explore, reflect, and critique its impact.

Questions we seek to explore include:

• How do machine-generated expressions shape artistic intent?
• What sounds, expressions, emotions, meanings, and reflections do such experimentation contain?
• What does AI bring to a creative process, and what does it take away?
• What are the limitations of meaningful use of AI, if any?
• How can AI be used to include or exclude?

Machines – Moving – Music will showcase artistic projects, performances, installations, keynotes, and panel discussions that explore these issues.

The symposium is a prelude for MishMash – Centre for AI & Creativity, a comprehensive partnership led by The University of Oslo. We invite MishMash partners, artists, researchers, and teachers to participate.

The symposium Machines – Moving – Music is a collaboration between The Norwegian Academy of Music and CreaTeME – The University of Agder’s Centre for Excellence in Creative Use of Technologies in Music Education.