Proposals until March 12th.
7th Conference
Kantatzen Duten Herriak (Vol. 7) | People that sing
CFP Singing artificial intelligences
First publication date: 20/02/2024
It seems inevitable nowadays to mention generative artificial intelligence (AI) when talking about art and creativity, as it is a phenomenon that has emerged with an unusual force in these artistic fields. Although artificial intelligence has been part of the music world for years, either in music creation per se or in algorithms that structure visibility and thus condition listening on streaming platforms, now the leap of Generative Artificial Intelligence is posing new scenarios for the creation, distribution, trade, and consumption of music. In Kantatzen Duten Herriak (KDH), a conference interested on contemporary sounds and music's relationship with the social sphere, in this new edition (and it's the seventh), we join the discussions on the emergence of AI. To ensure that KDH remains a tool for research and debate, our guests and collaborators will help us understand this phenomenon and its present and future implications.
There are many technologies, from printing to the internet, through photography, cinema, television, computers, or smartphones, that have subverted the order of things at very different levels: technologically, of course, but also cognitively, symbolically, legally, culturally, pedagogically, and economically. In line with this, we are presenting a new call for papers from KDH to receive proposals that study these themes and help us understand in all its dimensions a technology that, although we do not know exactly how long it has been with us, it has recently exploded and begun to show both its possibilities and its threats.
We invite you to submit oral communications, sound interventions, performative conferences, small format concerts, etc., that approach AI from different perspectives: those that consider it a tool or a new resource for creativity, others that see certain uses as a threat to authors, those that discuss the ethics of some of its applications, or even reflections on its uses in education or in the production of subjectivity and social construction of taste. This does not preclude the possibility of other themes related to what we always openly address in these conferences: music, culture, creativity, and its broad relationship with the social sphere. Proposals can be in-person or online, in any of the peninsular languages and English. And as always, in a free space, with no registration fees.
Proposals to kdh.the@ehu.eus until March 12th.