AI on Our Terms: Artists and Creatives Respond

From Lived Experience to Policy Recommendations

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The workshop shifts the conversation around AI and creative work by asking not how artists and creatives should adapt to technologies developed elsewhere, but what AI should look like if creative practitioners themselves were in the driving seat.

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It is addressed to people working creatively with images, sound and narratives - including, for example, visual artists, illustrators, designers, writers, filmmakers, musicians, game developers and other creative practitioners whose work is being affected by AI.

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Representatives of various creative fields will examine the fears, hopes and real-world experiences - positive and negative - specific to their practices. From these, they will formulate the needs, principles and conditions that should guide the development and use of AI in the cultural and creative sectors. In a final step, participants will identify shared priorities for AI developers, policymakers and other stakeholders and formulate an initial action agenda.

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The results will feed into a broader pan-European research process and the development of policy and technology recommendations intended to strengthen the agency of artists and creatives in shaping the future of AI.

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Speakers:

Alexey Steblev is a cultural executive and entrepreneur with senior experience across arts, cultural institutions, technology and international business. Co-founder and CCO of CultTech Association, with experience building cultural innovation programmes, international partnerships, digital transformation initiatives and cross-sector projects connecting culture and technology.As a member of string quartets won numerous international competitions, as a solo-cellist of chamber orchestra “Moscow Virtuosi” toured worldwide, as a composer concentrated on chamber and movie music. Has numerous recordings at international recording labels.As an entrepreneur worked in the venture capital industry as a business development and investment manager.Alexey is one of the co-founders of the Alliance for Culture and AI Consensus (ACAIC), Vienna-based non-profit organization.

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Lenka Hamosova is a designer, educator and researcher exploring how AI reshapes creativity, cognition and human agency. Active in creative AI since the GAN era, her 2019 project Strange Attractions was exhibited at the NeurIPS AI Art Gallery in 2020. She is co-founder and executive board member of TAH – Centre for Innovations in Technology, Art and Humanities, where she develops interdisciplinary education. Through Creative AI Workflows, she creates courses, workshops and tools for working with AI without giving up authorship or critical judgement, including the internationally distributed Creative AI Cards. Her work builds on four years of doctoral research into synthetic media at FAMU. She founded and ran Creative AI Meetups Prague for three years and writes critical essays at Creative AI Unfiltered.

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