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Digital Futures Summit: AI and the Creative Horizon

10 Apr 2024,
12:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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AFTRS welcomes you to the fourth Digital Futures Summit – an interactive online event focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the creative industries and education.  

The Digital Futures Summit is an opportunity for leaders, educators and policymakers in the Australian and international screen and broadcast industries to discuss the impact, challenges and possibilities of technological change on labour, training and creativity. This fourth summit will bring a range of conversations around creativity, pedagogy, ethics, Indigenous sovereignty and inclusion in the emerging age of AI.

This live and interactive online event includes some of Australia’s and the world’s foremost AI experts from a range of different companies, universities and institutes. Across all the sessions, you will have the opportunity to listen and ask questions of each speaker. 

Sessions: 

  • Learning with AI 
  • Critical Making: AI in Screen and Audio Education 
  • Augmented Creativity: AI in the Creative Industries 
  • Indigenous Sovereignty and AI: Storing Cultural Practices and Reclaiming Narratives through AI, Film, Radio and Beyond 
  • The Politics of AI: Navigating Ethics, Inclusion and Job Disruption in the Creative Industries 

To join the Summit, please register for each session you wish to attend. Registration for all sessions is free. 

Session 1 – Learning with AI

Time: 10 April, 12 – 1pm AEST

Speakers: 

At the foundation of AI is a relationship between artificiality and intelligence, which raises compelling questions about cognitive processes, creative intelligence, and the development of technological behaviours. This session begins the Digital Futures Summit with a panel focused on interactions between the brain, literacy, and pedagogy in the use of AI in creative industries education, especially as it relates to screen and audio practice. 

 

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Session 2 – Critical Making: AI in Screen and Audio Education

Time: 10 April, 1:30 – 2:30pm

Speakers: 

AI in the classroom is a challenge for the education sector. For screen and audio education, navigating this challenge involved being open to how AI can enhance opportunities for creative, critical making in the learning journey while also being attuned to how such technologies can influence the nature of imagination and play in creative practice education. This panel discusses case studies on how AI can be used in the space. These case studies will provoke questions about creative practice-based learning, innovation in education, and consequences on access and inclusion to respond to the impact of rapid technological change in the classroom. 

 

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Session 3 – Augmented Creativity: AI in the Creative Industries

Time: 10 April, 2:30 – 3:30pm

Speakers: 

As AI technologies become more sophisticated and pervasive, we’re seeing their wider adoption within the creative industries. This panel brings together leaders from the Screen and Audio sectors to discuss some of the creative and commercial opportunities and challenges presented by AI. Panellists will discuss their own experiences working with AI, and consider how AI tools are changing creative and industrial practices in their industries.

 

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Session 4 – Indigenous Sovereignty and AI: Storing Cultural Practices and Reclaiming Narratives through AI, Film, Radio and Beyond

Time: 10 April, 4 – 5pm

Speakers: 

The session aims to explore how AI can be used as a tool in Film, Radio, Television and beyond to support our already existing Indigenous Knowledge (IK) systems. Looking at ways Indigenous Sovereignty and Indigenous Data Sovereignty can support the flourishing of future generations and to optimise for abundance rather than scarcity.

 

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Session 5 – The Politics of AI: Navigating Ethics, Inclusion and Job Disruption in the Creative Industries

Time: 10 April, 5 – 6pm

Speakers: 

This session explores some of the complexities surrounding AI and its use in the creative industries, from artists’ labour rights and ownership protection to the risk of embedded biases in the development of AI tools. With the widespread use and normalisation of AI in society and, particularly, the screen and audio sectors, these issues raise concerns about the inclusivity of voices, diversity of knowledge, and future workforce development. 

 

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