art-ai-fact

Creative projects with AI contribution

This three-year initiative produces creative outputs in fields related to design, especially including a physical component. The initiative curates, funds, and coordinates projects, which aim for relevant public presentation. A related research publication is not obligatory, but preferred. Of the resulting works of practice and art, a hybrid physical/digital exhibition will collect and celebrate the outcome, in second half of 2027. The work is expected to feed to the development of computational co-creativity at Aalto Arts.

"Original and appropriate"

Creativity requires a level of originality or novelty, as well as approriateness or relevance. Physical world constraints and requirements, and humans operating there, pose different fitness criteria for creative output than that expected from immaterial creative outputs. Many designers operate where material and digital meet. As Aalto ARTS has been in the forefront combining digital and physical into creative solutions, the potential of AI to human creativity is a field we want to contribute on, and learn from.

Design, art, research

Apart from a call for project proposals for designers and artists who want to realize and publish such, we invite researchers of computational creativity to contribute and collaborate with the project owners.

Objectives

The longer term objectives include:
* Establish a research and design agenda of the applications of AI in the field of physical artefact design
* Develop recognition in the field, liaising with other relevant AI activities at Aalto and outside of it
* Support design teaching with research and practice-based outputs 
* Secure funding for the future

Coordination and steering

A steering group from ARTS oversees the initiative: 

• Severi Uusitalo (Project coordinator, Dept. of Design))
• Tuuli Mattelmäki (Prof. Dept. of Design)
• Pia Fricker (Assoc. Prof, Dept. of Architecture)

Funding

The initiative is made possible by the endowment from Fiskars Group.