The Art and Science of Creative AI

This event is a two-day interdisciplinary symposium exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping the terrain of artistic production, cultural memory, and aesthetic knowledge. It brings together researchers, artists, theorists, and technologists to examine AI not only as a tool or collaborator, but as a catalyst in the formation of new creative methods, conceptual models, and infrastructures. At the heart of this symposium lies a philosophical provocation: what is synthetic knowledge – forms of understanding and aesthetic insight that emerge from non-human processes? As AI systems simulate, remix, and increasingly engage in creative acts, what are the implications for authorship, embodiment, and intentionality? The event will also host the inaugural in-person CreativeAI@UCL SIG Lunch, fostering collaboration across disciplines and building a sustained UCL research community around creative artificial intelligence. This event will be particularly useful to academics, researchers, PhD students, industry, practitioners and technologists.