Welcome to this symposium focused on AI and Craft Practices. By bringing together researchers from various fields, we aim to gain a deeper understanding of how craft methodologies, often characterized by slow making processes, meticulous care and attention to detail, can contribute to the ongoing global discourse on AI.
Through a series of lectures, we aim to explore potential threats and benefits of AI as a non-human(?) force, raise awareness about digital worlds being rooted in mined material realities and question what it means to live in a society that increasingly turns to prompt-based models for generating content.
The symposium is developed in collaboration with Anneleen Swillen (postdoctoral researcher and tutor at PXL-MAD School of Arts and Hasselt University, Belgium), researcher and independent artist Patricia Domingues (phd) and Agnieszka Knap artist and senior lecturer at Konstfack.
Speakers
Dr. Patricia Domingues, researcher and independent artist
Petra Jääskeläinen Doctoral Candidate/Researcher in Creative-AI/ KTH
Nora A. Kahn, writer and independent curator
Anna Mlasowsky, Professor in Glass and Ceramics, Konstfack
Agnieszka Knap, senior lecturer / Head of Master's Programme CRAFT!, Konstfack
Dr. Magnus Sahlgren, Head of Research at AI Sweden
Dr. Anneleen Swillen, researcher and tutor at PXL-MAD School of Arts and Hasselt University
Programme Schedule
10:15 am – 10:25 am: Welcome and introduction Agnieszka Knap
10:25 am – 11:25 am: Session 1
Speculative Annotation – Extended, Agnieszka Knap
Large Language Models, Dr. Magnus Sahlgren
11:25 am – 11:45 am: Coffee and Banana Break
11:45 am – 12:45 pm: Session 2
Reverberations of The Earth – Physicality of Artifcial Intelligence, Dr. Patrícia Domingues
Ethically Grounded AI Arts, Values and Culture, Petra Jääskeläinen
12:45 pm – 2:15 pm: Lunch Break (1.5 h)
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm: Session 3
Artifcial Intelligems: Co-creating More-Than-Human Adornment with Machine Learning, Dr. Anneleen Swillen
Exploring the Potential of AI in Craft Anna Mlasowsky and art collective NikuAI
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm: Coffee Break
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm Session 4
Recursive Weaving, Nora N. Khan, zoom presentation
4:15 pm – 5 pm: Conclusion
More information about the sessions is available in the PDF below.