Overview

How is AI impacting the arts, and how are the arts impacting AI? Join us for our Spring Symposium for a conversation among technologists, scholars, and creatives – including both commercial and non-commercial sectors– about creativity in the age of AI from aesthetic, technical, social, ethical and legal perspectives.

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Agenda

Breakfast 

8:30 am - 9:00 am 

Opening Remarks

9:00 am - 9:15 am 

• Michele Elam
• James Landay

AI & the Future of the Creative Industry 

9:15 am - 10:00 am | Generative AI: Privacy Project

• Jennifer King
• Caroline Sinders
• Moderator: Camille Utterback

10:00 am - 10:45 am | Generative AI: Issues in Art Copyright & Open-Source

• Scott Draves
• Pamela Samuelson
• Moderator: Russ Altman

10:45 am - 11:00 am | Break

11:00 am - 11:45 am | Artist & Artist-Advocate Perspectives on AI, Copyright, Future of Work

• Rebecca Blake
• Steven Zapata
• Moderator: Russ Altman

11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Good, Bad, Ugly?: Assessing Aesthetic Value when AI Meets Art

• Blaise Agüera y Arcas
• Golan Levin
• Moderator: Ge Wang

12:30 pm - 12:40 pm | BEING Video 

12:40 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch 

Panel II: The “Human” at the Center of Human-Centered AI

2:00 pm - 2:40 pm | AI, Performance, & Choreo-robotics

• Ken Goldberg
• Sydney Skybetter
• Moderator: Catie Cuan

2:40 pm - 3:20 pm | AI, Music, Ethics

• Douglas Eck
• Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo
• Moderator: Adam Banks

3:20 pm - 4:00 pm | AI, Disability Activism & Arts

• Lindsey D. Felt
• Meredith Ringel Morris
• Moderator: Michele Elam

4:00 pm - 4:15 pm | Break 

Artist Spotlight: AI, Art & the Seneca Creation Story

4:15 pm - 5:00 pm | Presentation and Fireside Chat

• Amelia Winger-Bearskin
• Jason Edward Lewis
• Moderators: Lauren Lee McCarthy, Srinija Srinivasan

AI & the Future of the Creative Industry

5:00 pm - 5:50 pm 

• Mitchell Baker
• Annie Dorsen
• Sam Gill
• Moderators: Michele Elam, James Landay

Closing Remarks

5:50 pm - 5:55 pm 

• Michele Elam
• James Landay

Closing Performance

5:55 pm - 6:15 pm

• Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo

Reception

6:15 pm - 7:30 pm

If you need a disability-related accommodation, please contact: Madeleine Wright, Communications and Events Coordinator, at email: mwright7@stanford.edu. Requests should be made at least a week before the event. 

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