AI in practice – Micro Festival

AI in practice – Micro Festival

AI in practice: a multidisciplinary perspective on AI and creativity
Micro-festival curated by Melani De Luca

The AI landscape is rapidly changing, infiltrating almost every domain of our lives and making it difficult to understand these transformations as they happen to us. To navigate this complexity, AI in Practice brings together experts from across disciplines to explore AI from multiple angles, offering a space to reflect on what these shifts mean for creative professions.

Through a curated series of talks and lectures spanning theoretical foundations, real-world implementations and philosophical perspectives, this micro-festival brings together international academics, artists, developers and philosophers under the shared conviction that only through diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives we can truly understand the consequences AI is having on creative professions.

 

We look forward to seeing you on Friday, May 8th, from 11.00:18.00 a.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. at the Palazzo della Cultura in Catania – Sala della Notte.

AI in Practice is particularly relevant for students, emerging designers, artists, technologists, young professionals and all kinds of practitioners for whom AI is no longer a distant technological development but an active collaborator in their creative work. The event is an opportunity to engage with these transformations critically, through direct dialogue with leading experts.

 

The event is organized by Accademia Abadir under the patronage of the Municipality of Catania and DISUM – the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania.

AI in Practice is part of the NIMI Project — La Nuova Intelligenza del Made in Italy — funded by the European Union Next Generation EU (NGEU) for the internationalisation of AFAM Higher Education Institutions, under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) Mission 4, Component 1, Investment 3.4, Sub-Investment T5. CUP: H37G24000080001.

 

Curator

Melani De Luca

Designer, Researcher and Artist
Curator of AI in practice and panel moderator

Speakers

GUIDO ANSELMI

Professor of Sociology of Culture
Università di Catania (Italy)

 

 

 

 

MARIYA DZHIMOVA

Sociology Research Associate
Hochschule München (Munich, Germany)

Luna Maurer

Designer and Artist
Founder of Studio Moniker (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
lunamaurer.com

Ivona Tau

New Media Artist
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
ivonatau.com

Simona Tiribelli

Professor of Ethics
Università di Macerata (Italy)

 

GIUSEPPE VECCHIO

Research Scientist
Adobe Research
(Lyon, France)

 

Tim Wan

Creative director
Bakken & Bæck (London, UK)
bakkenbaeck.com

Credits

An event by

Abadir Academy of Design and Visual Communication

Under the patronage of

Comune di Catania
Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche – UNICT

Curated by

Melani De Luca

Within the framework of

NIMI Project

Abadir Director

Lucia Giuliano

Communication Team

Alessia Amenta
Lucia Calà
Anna Cicero
Daniele Lombardo

Organisational support

Irene Di Mauro
Federica Lo Giudice
Veronica Marzullo

Production and logistics

 

Mercati Generali