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Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are rapidly changing the contexts in which performing arts are created, produced, and experienced. This event brings together perspectives from the arts, technology, and academia to explore what these developments mean in practice: from new forms of artistic collaboration and experimentation to partnerships between cultural institutions and technology ecosystems.
Through three keynote presentations, the program asks how the performing arts can engage with technological change while retaining their own forms of knowledge, imagination, and critical thinking. The speakers of the event represent leading institutions and practitioners in these fields in Finland and Belgium.
Event programme:
17:00 – Opening
17:15 – Keynote 1: Aalto Centre for Radical Creativity by Dr. Riikka Mäkikoskela, Head of Aalto Centre for Radical Creativity, Aalto University
How do we create new ideas, processes, solutions, products, services and collaborations in our turbulent times? And how do we move from incremental, step-by-step development to radical change? Riikka Mäkikoskela brings research perspectives and experiences from Aalto University’s Radical Creativity initiative to the discussion.
17:45 – Keynote 2: Building Productive Alliances Between Different Ecosystems
by Stijn Jansen, Creative Director, Wintercircus Ghent
How can arts and technology organisations build meaningful partnerships despite their different cultures and ways of working? Drawing on the collaboration between Wintercircus and NTGent, Stijn Jansen explores the opportunities, challenges and lessons of connecting artistic and technological ecosystems.
18:15 – Keynote 3: Goose Bumps Tech Lab by Yves Degryse, Artistic Director, NTGent and BERLIN
How can technology become a creative partner in the performing arts? Yves Degryse introduces NTGent’s Goose Bumps Tech Lab and its experiments with AI, artistic creation and machine agency, with Alva Ishii and Sonder as concrete examples.
18:45 Q&A
with Riikka Mäkikoskela, Stjin Jansen and Yves Degryse
moderated by Jussi Sorjanen (Artistic Director of & Espoo Theatre)
20:00 End
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