What is Computational Creativity?

Name: What is Computational Creativity?
Start: 2018-08-29T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2018-08-29T21:00:00-04:00
Location: ustwo

Hosted By

David F.

Details

In this installment of Designing with AI, our panel will discuss the opportunities and issues emerging from a new breed (http://lobe.ai, https://runwayml.com/) of tools that aim to enhance creativity through the power of Machine Learning. But how does it all work?

Some of the questions we’ll aim to cover:

What is Computational Creativity?
What kinds of tools are emerging that use Machine Learning?
How do these tools work?
How do these tools change the creative process?
How do these tools change the roles of the designer?
How can designers begin to use these tools?
Are there any benefits/downsides of using these types of tools?

Panelists:

Patrick Hebron, Adobe

Patrick is a software developer, designer, teacher and author. Patrick’s work focuses on the emerging intersections between machine learning, design tools, programming languages and operating systems. Patrick is also author of Machine Learning For Designers, published by O’Reilly Media in 2016.

Learn more at: https://www.patrickhebron.com/

Allison Parrish, NYU ITP

Allison is a poet and programmer and currently a member of the full-time faculty at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Allison’s research focuses on making art about language and how it's used and arranged, especially in the context of computation and the Internet.

Allison’s selected work and portfolio can be found at: https://www.decontextualize.com/

Mathew Ray, Google Creative Lab

Mathew is a Creative and Technology Director with a background in both Computer Science and Fine Arts. At Google’s Creative Lab in New York, Mathew has helped launch numerous platforms and the projects within them such as Chrome Music Lab, Android Experiments, AI Experiments, WebVR Experiments, AR Experiments, I/O conference activations, internal apps, DevOps and prototypes.

Learn more at: https://twitter.com/mrayinteractive

Moderator:

David Fisher, Product Lead, ustwo NYC

David Fisher is a Product Lead at ustwo – a digital product studio that forges best in class digital experiences in partnership with the world’s leading brands. Over the course of the last ten years, David has led projects across a spectrum of industries and top tier brands including Facebook, Foursquare, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, UBS, Barclays, Saxo Bank, Tesco, American Express, Worldpay, Toyota and Google, amongst many others. Alongside client work, David writes and speaks about how digital design practice is evolving alongside the bleeding edge of technology, with a focus on the field of artificial intelligence.