Artificial Creativity Looking at the Future of Digital Culture

This edited book collects a selection of the best papers submitted for the Artificial Creativity: Looking at the Future of Digital Culture meeting held in Milan, Italy in June of 2024.  The chapters cover the effects of technology on the arts  including the narrative, visual, and auditory. This book revisits the notion of what can be considered creative, artistic, and consequently an expression of our culture.  It appeals to students and researchers and reveals how the field of ‘creative practice research’ is constantly shaped by the emergence of new technologies, especially “intelligent” technologies such as AI and machine learning.   

Foreword Notes on Generative AI.- Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1 Machine and Language.- Chapter 2 Beyond ChatGPT: AI Applications to Italian Language Varieties.- Chapter 3 Authorship and Hallucination in AI-Generated Literary Texts.- Chapter 4 Literary Imaginaries of AI.- Chapter 5 Exploring AI-generated Plot Ideas for a TV Series in the ‘Alternate History’ Sub-genre.- Chapter 6 Writing with Technologies: Reimagining the Author.- Chapter 7 Gpt-3 and Storie Tese: the automatic writing of Rocco Tanica.- Chapter 8 A color out of (narrative) Space: How Conversational AI Can Play Gamebooks Enabling Learning in the Process.- Chapter 9 Metaverse Narratives and Artificial Creativity: Fostering Divergent Thinking in the Education of the Future.- Chapter 10 Pedagogical and Literary Intersections in AI  Imaginaries.- Chapter 11 Toward Human-AI Interaction in Music Composition: Studying Composers’ Practice.- Chapter 12 Recognition as ‘Art’ by Publics: How Generative AI Music Production is Perceived.- Chapter 13 Creativity and Digital Music Education in the AI Era.- Chapter 14 AI imag(inari)es: Visual Representations of Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 15 Toward Human-AI Co-Creativity? An Exploration of Early Adopters’ Perspectives and Experiences with GenAI in the Creative Industries.- Chapter 16 How AI Generates Creativity from Inauthenticity.- Chapter 17 Augmented, Frustrated, or Indifferent? How Content Professionals Perceive and Adapt Their Writing Process Using Mainstream AI-powered Tools.- List of Contributors.

Alessandra Micalizzi is a sociologist, psychologist and a PhD in communication and new technologies. She was post-doc Fellow at the Free University of Languages and Communication IULM for four years doing research on the connection of digital practice and emotions (shame, mourning, collective trauma, happiness).  She collaborated with several Italian and international academies such as IUSVe IUSTo and IED. Alessandra Micalizzi is also currently a lecturer at the SAE Institute in Milan, where she teaches sociology of new media. She is co-founder and vice-president of the association Play-Ability, that aims to do research and interventions in the socio-psycho-educational field of play (traditional and digital). She is a member of the scientific board of the Italian journal Narrare i Gruppi, and of the international journal Online Information Review.  She is editor of the book series Communication processes & cultural practices.