Co-Creation and Collective Imagination with AI Algorithms
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8 Jul Sat 21:00 CEST
As we dive deeper into the digital age, artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize various sectors, including artistic practice. There’s a growing enthusiasm as well as apprehension among artists and creative practitioners regarding the possible implications of AI and the futures it might bring about. Questions arise, for instance, around the co-creative process of AI-media synthesis stemming from deep artistic exploration of AI tools: How to balance and cross-pollinate the inputs of human artists and AI algorithms in a co-creative process? How can we use AI to creatively engage our emotional presence and bodily experiences? What hiccups and glitches can happen on the way?
In response to these questions and concerns, we are hosting „How to Art with AI: Co-Creation and Collective Imagination with AI Algorithms“ – a public event of the Uroboros Festival’s year-long program, Uroboros Loops. This gathering seeks to shed light on the potentialities of human-AI co-creation, drawing on insights derived from a collaborative two-day research workshop with AI artists and other experts.
We invite individuals from all walks of life – artists, students, musicians, programmers, journalists, and anyone interested in AI – to join us in this exploration. The co-creative event invites all attendees to engage in a participatory experimentation with the collaborative possibilities of AI and discuss the diverse roles of AI in art and creativity.
Participating artists and researchers:
Zuzana Husárová (theorist & poet working with AI / Liza Gennart / Digital Arts AFAD Bratislava),
Scy Heidekamp (AI artist / Seyhan Lee),
Moisés Horta Valenzuela (sound artist working with neural synthesis / Hexorcismos),
Alexa Steinbrück (AI artist & programmer & researcher / AI+D Lab at HfG Schwäbisch-Gmünd / KITeGG)
Laura Juliane Wagner (embodiment aspects of AI / Köln International School of Design (KISD) / KITeGG)
Enrique Encinas (designer & associate professor / Oslo School of Architecture and Design / Uroboros Festival)
Tereza Stehlíková (artist & researcher / Tangible Territories)
Georgy Bagdasarov (interdisciplinary artist / FAMU Prague)
David Kořínek (artist / Rafani / FUD UJEP)
Curated by Lenka Hámošová (artist & researcher focusing on participatory AI media synthesis / FAMU Prague / Uroboros Festival)
Lenka Hámošová
Lenka Hámošová is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher working at the intersection of AI, creativity, and embodied human experience. With a background in visual communication and over 15 years of creative practice, she explores how we can reclaim agency, intuition, and meaning in the age of intelligent tools.
Her ongoing PhD research investigates collaborative human–AI creation, and she regularly shares her findings through talks, workshops, and experimental educational formats. Lenka is the founder of Creative AI Workflows, a methodology and platform helping people develop more conscious and grounded relationships with generative technologies. She also created the Creative AI Cards — a tactile system for mapping AI tools by input/output modalities and creative potential.
She has lectured at FAMU, UMPRUM, and Prague City University, collaborated with teams like Google AI Ethics and ČSOB, and exhibited work at venues such as DOX and the AI Art Gallery. In 2023, she initiated Creative AI Meetups in Prague to foster a hybrid community of technologists and creatives exploring the future of co-creation with machines.