Emotionality and Artificial Intelligence

After Ancona, Pontedera, Como, Milan and Naples, The AFAM Roadshow – Research. Creativity. Innovation comes to Rome with Creations – Emotionality and Artificial Intelligence, an event dedicated to the many relationships between human sensitivity and generative technologies.

The day takes place in the RUFA Campus Libetta, one of the Roman venues of the RUFA Academy – Rome University of Fine Arts, a reclaimed and regenerated six-thousand-square-meter space between the historic neighborhoods of the Capitoline southern quadrant Ostiense and Garbatella.
Organized by CNR ISPC, RUFA, IED and Sapienza University of Rome, the event explores the potential of smart technologies as tools for creation, storytelling and imagination.

Creations is the key word that guides the day and inhabits the hybrid space between human and artificial intelligences. The creations that emerge from this encounter intertwine data and emotions, opening up new ways of learning, feeling and generating culture.
Through interactive installations, encounters, performances and experimental practices, Creations is configured as a living laboratory, where artificial intelligence becomes a creative accomplice: it analyzes, responds, processes, suggests. An invitation to rethink the relationship between technologies and the arts as fertile ground for an aesthetic in the making.

The event kicks off at 3 p.m. with the Opening, the inaugural ceremony hosted in Lecture Hall G13 on the Libetta Campus. The focus of the introduction is the day’s theme and scheduled events, including future scenarios, generative arts and performance practices.

Welcoming speakers: Fabio Mongelli (RUFA Director), Costanza Miliani (Acting Director CNR ISPC), Antonella Polimeni (Sapienza Rector), Laura Negrini (Director IED Rome).

The Opening concludes with a pitch by sociologist Derrick de Kerckhove, among the leading scholars of digital culture and Special guest of the Roman event. A student and successor of Marshall
McLuhan, de Kerckhove directed the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology at the University of Toronto from 1983 to 2008. Author of such essays as The Skin of Culture and
Connected Intelligence, is Scientific Director of Osservatorio TuttiMedia and Media Duemila, as well as a lecturer at various Italian and international universities.

After the coffee break, the Table Talks, invitation-only thematic workshops coordinated by AFAM Grand Tour partners, will begin at 4 p.m. In the campus classrooms, the discussion will revolve around the macro-theme of Digital Cultural Heritage, including design, copyright, education and shared planning. The structure of the tables includes introduction, parallel discussion and final return.

The Genius Academies are lectio magistralis designed for students interested in the world of Digital Cultural Heritage, but also open to researchers, professionals and those curious about contemporary culture. The meetings are free, with reservations required at the following links:

4:45 pm – 6:00 pm
Duration: 75 minutes – Max. 25 participants per classroom
AI-DRIVEN ANALYSIS: LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS TO GENERATE A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH by Paolo Sernani, University of Macerata

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Genius will show how artificial intelligence can help read and interpret complex historical texts through the use of integrated AI tools. Through tools for recognizing and linking names of people, places, works and concepts, it will be possible to build knowledge graphs: real interactive maps that relate events, people and ideas.

DIGITAL PLURALITIES. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, FLUID IDENTITIES AND NEW FORMS OF LEARNING. Edited by Luca Longobardi, IED

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What happens when pedagogy meets artificial intelligence? And when does it do so in an age when identity is no longer singular but plural, fluid, multiple? The lecture explores the shift from centralized, vertical educational models to scenarios in which AI becomes both tool and interlocutor.

RE\:HUMANISM. ART PRACTICE AS AN EXPLORATION OF LATENT SPACE Edited by Daniela Cotimbo, RUFA

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The Genius Academy examines how contemporary art practices are addressing the ethical, social and cultural implications related to artificial intelligence. The concept of “latent space,” coming from the language of machine learning, is used as a key to reflect on how AI technologies contribute to new forms of representation and interpretation of reality.

At 6:45 p.m. there is the Closing, a concluding moment that returns voices, experiences and reflections that emerged during the day, while the works on display at the Campus can be visited from 2:30 to 9 p.m.

➔ Download the Rome event press release here

➔ Rome event brochure here

➔ Save – the – Rome event dates here

➔ Concept Exploring Humans paginated here

➔ Creativity Map here

➔ General Roadshow Brochure here