Collective Individuation in Virtual Spaces: AI-driven co-creativity and Telematics for Inclusive Music-Making by Hans Kretz

  • Published on 28 oct. 2024 by hkretz
co-creativity/ generative AI/ accessibility/ telematics

This practice-based research seeks to question how the meaning of the prefix "co" in "co-creativity" can be fully understood. This question is central to artistic and educational communities employing AI in co-creative practices, and will be addressed in this research project, which employs AI and remote collaboration technologies to enhance accessibility in collective music- making, through a methodology integrating principles of co-design, universal design and collaborative co- creation.

By applying philosophical and aesthetic frameworks, it investigates how the implementation of distributive, inclusive and de-hierarchizing technologies can challenge Western traditions of authorship and expand our understanding of collaborative music-making and knowledge production.  I will draw on the use of software such as Somax2 and Dicy2 in ensemble practice to highlight how a 'sound object' becomes an 'object of thought,' inherently involving knowledge production about it.