In this podcast Dan Ashton (Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Southampton and one of Work Futures Research Centre Co-Directors) and Dr Karen Patel (Associate Professor in Media in the College of English and Media and Co-Lead of the Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts (CEDIA) at Birmingham City University) explore the relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and creative work. Set within the quickly changing landscape of AI and the creative industries where there are ongoing debates around intellectual property, the nature of creativity and the impact on work practices, this podcast explores their research on construction of a humanoid robot artist identity.

References:

Will a robot take your job?

The Future of Employment

AI and the reformulation of cultural labour

Creative Industries and GenAI: Policy recommendations to support an industry in transition

Assemblages of creativity: Material practices in the creative economy

Creative Work and Artificial Intelligence: Imaginaries, Assemblages and Portfolios

The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour: Arts, Work, Inequalities

‘People don’t buy art, they buy artists’: Robot artists – work, identity, and expertise

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