Speaking AIART 2024

The Speaking AIART 2024 conference (coming in December 2024 or January 2025) aims to showcase the latest developments in AI art, which can be seen in close connection with scientific knowledge. The project’s creators are based on the concept of communication between art and science. Equally important is the ambition to create a Think Tank, for which this festival could provide a suitable starting platform. The conference is organized by the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, the Faculty of Arts at the Technical University in Košice, and partners Media Art Office and Cultcode.org.

The Speaking AIART 2025 conference aims to showcase the latest developments in AIArt, which can be perceived in close relation to scientific knowledge. This aim also has the ambition to open discussions about the possibilities of implementing artistic positions into advanced systems with the goal of initiating an interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of digital humanities or AI humanities. The theme of the first year is the partnership between the artist and AI in the environment of AIArt artistic research. The conference will present several artistic and scientific projects that share the theme of AIArt.

 

The main focus of the first-ever Speaking AIART conference, happening in a hybrid format at the end of 2024, is the partnership between artists and AI. This theme reflects the rapid growth of AI art over the past 6 years, which has greatly expanded human and non-human creative abilities. It’s clear to see that artists and machines are working together to create new forms of art. Aesthetics are no longer just a human thing. AIART is now exploring important questions about AI, such as artificial consciousness and how machines can make judgments about art. This conference is a great place to explore computational neuroaesthetics and new ways of doing artistic research that can expand our knowledge and experiences. Artists like Kilngemann, Anadol, and Lauren McCarthy are leading the way in this field, along with theorists like Zylinska and Manovich, and architects like del Campo.

Conference program:

The conference will be held as a live stream and in a hybrid format (pre-recorded contributions or lectures) on a single day, tentatively scheduled for December 5, 2024. The first block is scheduled from 13:00 to 15:00 and will include an opening speech by the organizer, followed by the presentation of conference papers in a 20-minute format. The second block will be held from 15:00 to 18:00, during which 40-minute lecture contributions will be presented. The entire transmission will be moderated live.

Selection of contributions:

The organizing team, which will include a conference committee, will be composed of 3 experts working in the field of art and digital humanities, primarily from academic institutions. The expert committee, together with the organizing team, will directly select participants for the conference program.

–          Both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed scientific contributions, regardless of whether they have been published in Slovak, Czech or English, may be included, according to the specific guidelines of the organizer, by December 2, 2024 at the latest.

–          The contribution (short conference paper)  must include an English-language text (12,000-15,000 characters including spaces) that can be presented as a 15-20 minute video, which the contributor will prepare as a video recording (MPEG-2 format as agreed upon by the organizer).

–          The lecture must include an English-language text (25,000-30,000 characters including spaces) that can be presented as a 30-45 minute video, which the contributor will prepare as a video recording (MPEG-2 format as agreed upon by the organizer).

–          By submitting their work, contributors agree to allow their paper or presentation to be included in the published proceedings ( book or  social media). If their work is published elsewhere, they must cite the original source and give their consent for re-publication.

The expert committee is responsible for inviting contributors, managing the peer review process, and overseeing the publication of the catalog. Committee members can propose alternative reviewers if there is a conflict of interest. While the chair of the jury, jury members, and members of the organizing team may submit their work for the conference, they are excluded from the decision-making process regarding their own submissions.