This upcoming two-day workshop titled, Collective Intelligences, is taking place in Brussels, Belgium on 6 – 7 July 2023, hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU. 

This is the second in a series of workshops examining urgent skills needs in the cultural and creative sectors and industries. It will explore the relationship between creative production in the CCIS and the digital environments within which we operate.

How can artists and creatives help to build much-needed capacities for implementing change on systems level?

This workshop sets out to critically investigate the potential of collective intelligences that bring together human and non-human actors. 

These frameworks of co-agency and the potential of shared creativity and collective intelligences will be investigated from different perspectives: 

•  A short history of automatic writing: Generative AI in the view of modernist aesthetics from sampling, remixing, cut-up and other forms of early-stage collective intelligences. How can we learn from this rich archive?  

• How to learn navigating abstract realities in which everything becomes an image that is reducible to text and vice versa: everything becomes a text that can be turned into an image?  

• From big data literacy to public ownership of meta- and connection data: How to reclaim personal data mined by tracking usage, attention and behaviour to recycle them for creative purposes?  

• Whatever happened to Web3? The future of encryption, decentralisation, token-based economics and their relevance for the creative sectors  

• Is generative AI the very end or just the beginning of open source?