Open Lab: Climate AI in the Creative Industries

We are delighted to invite you to the Joint & the (IEF/IDC) 'Open Lab: Climate AI in the Creative Industries', an engaging, interdisciplinary event.

This Open Lab session aims to foster collaboration among academics and postgraduate researchers:

• To create a research group with colleagues working in the areas of AI ethics/social impact, the creative industries, environmental science and others who theorise and analyse Climate AI to offer and cross-fertilise innovative ideas, challenges, discontents, and ways forward. To also understand and showcase the methods and research techniques by which researchers in the various disciplinary areas investigate questions of Climate AI.

• To develop a Call for Papers and organise an international two-day conference to investigate the policies developed by and with policy makers and the mechanisms in place for and with practitioners in the creative industries to ensure use of AI takes into consideration environmental costs and related sociopolitical impacts. This conference will be set up to also examine the types of funding for Climate AI art, what relevan art is produced by creative industries professionals and invite artists to present Climate AI works to be exhibited during the conference.

The day will feature dynamic working sessions, brainstorming workshops, and interdisciplinary discussions. Whether your expertise lies in artificial intelligence, environmental science, media and creative industries, or within politics, business, sociology, criminology, law, or psychology, your insights are vital. This is a unique opportunity to network, contribute to cutting-edge research, and collaboratively organise a conference for showcasing innovative research relating to this emerging phenomenon.

Organising Team:

Prof. Heiko Baltzer, Director of Institute for Environmental Futures, School of Geography Geology & The Environment.

Dr. Alberto Cossu, Lecturer in Media & Communication at the School of Arts, Media & Communication, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Digital Culture.

Prof. James Fitchett, Professor of Marketing and Consumption, University of Leicester Business School.

Dr Bernhard Forchtner, Associate Professor Media & Communication at the School of Arts, Media & Communication.

Dr Sarah Jane Fox, Lecturer at the Leicester Law School, Associate Director at the Institute for Digital Culture.

Prof. Athina Karatzogianni, Professor of Technology and Society, School of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, Fellow at the Institute for Environmental Futures.

Dr Georgios Patsiaouras, Associate Professor in Marketing and Consumption, University of Leicester Business School.

The event is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Environmental Futures and the Institute for Digital Culture. For more information contact Prof. Athina Karatzogianni: [email protected]

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