Creative Machines that Write Prose and Produce Art: What makes them tick? (Online)

Join Arthur I. Miller, Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at University College London, online Wednesday, Sept. 25 from noon to 1 p.m. for Creative Machines that Write Prose and Produce Art: What Makes Them Tick? hosted by the Georgia Tech Library and moderated by Media Artist-In-Residence Bojana Ginn.

In this online lecture, Miller will explore questions like: 

• What is creativity? 
• Is it the same in humans and machines? 
• What impact will machine creativity have on human creativity? 
• What makes these machines tick? 
• In the future will there be machines with consciousness and emotions, machines capable of falling in love?  

He will also explore how machines running programs like AlphaGo and radical new developments like ChatGPT, GPT-4 and Dalle-2 have demonstrated creativity, opening up new vistas in AI-created art and literature. 

ABOUT ARTHUR I. MILLER

Arthur I. Miller is Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at University College London. He is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty that Causes Havoc, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes, short-listed for the Aventis Prize; 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession; Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art; and Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art. 

His most recent book, The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity, explores AI and creativity in art, literature and music. 

A regular broadcaster and lecturer, he has judged art competitions, curated exhibitions on the interface between art and science and writes for The Guardian, The New York Times, Scientific American, Wired and Nautilus. 

His new play, Synchronicity, recreates the intriguing encounters between the analyst Carl Jung and the brilliant but troubled young physicist Wolfgang Pauli. Readings of it played to sell-out audiences in New York in 2023. There will be a full production at the White Bear Theatre, London, from Nov. 19 to 30.

For more see www.arthurimiller.com and www.artistinthemachine.net.

ABOUT BOJANA GINN

Dr. Bojana Ginn is an awarded interdisciplinary artist, medical doctor, scientist, curator, and writer. Merging art, science and technology, Ginn creates installations, video-sculptures, and photography. She will work with the Library throughout Fall semester 2024.

Her work is shown in galleries and museums in Atlanta, New York, Barcelona, Venice, Baltimore, Nashville, Savannah, Berlin, and in International SciArt Conferences in the United States, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Ginn was honored with the prestigious Ellsworth Kelly Award by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Working Artist Project Award at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia. Ginn was a finalist for The World Technology Network Award in Art, and her video work was featured at the 2016 Venice Architectural Biennale. She often collaborates with scientific organizations like NASA, Georgia Institute of Technology, Augusta Cyber Center, Emory University, and SciArt Center.

ABOUT THE GEORGIA TECH LIBRARY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM

The Georgia Tech Library Artist-in-Residence program, curated and programmed by Public Programming and Community Engagement Specialist Catherine Manci, enhances and expands the current educational experience through arts-based programming as it relates to STEM fields and Georgia Tech areas of study. 

This year’s program, which focuses on a media Artist-in-Residence, is a collaboration between the Library and the Interdisciplinary Media Arts Center (IMA).  It is funded by the Price Gilbert Jr. Charitable Fund and IMA.

A visiting artist engages the Georgia Tech community in an artistic and aesthetic exploration of the role of the libraries in society, and the Artist-in-Residence program supports the mission of the Library through arts-based programming and engagement as a core responsibility of the artist-in-residence.

World-renowned multimedia visionary Deanna Sirlin was the inaugural 2022 Library Artist-in-Residence. Her piece, Watermark, is on display on the ground floor of Crosland Tower.

In 2023 the Library partnered with former Georgia Tech assistant professor and double-graduate Jacket Tristan Al-Haddad for the second installment of the Artist-In-Residence program. His piece, Polycentric Truthes, is on display in Price Gilbert’s First Floor Reading Room.