The intersection of artificial intelligence and the humanities is creating a thriving field where AI can show its potential, enriching traditional humanistic sectors.  Digital Humanities, long conceived as the application of computational methods to cultural heritage, is expanding beyond archives and  artefacts and is evolving into questions of consciousness, identity, and moral responsibility. This expansion is more vivid than ever in the visual and performing arts: AI systems now generate images, compose music, choreograph movement, and co-author theatrical scripts, raising urgent questions about authorship, aesthetic experience, and the nature of creativity itself. 

This expansion is scientifically urgent: as AI systems become increasingly capable of reading, writing, seeing, and performing, the question of whether these abilities entail anything resembling understanding or subjectivity becomes central to both AI research and humanistic inquiry. ReDH responds to this urgency by creating a space where engineering rigour meets philosophical depth. The workshop addresses questions that neither AI research nor Digital Humanities can answer alone: What does it mean for a machine to interpret a historical text, or to generate a painting in the style of a Renaissance master? Can an AI system experience, even in a minimal sense, the aesthetic quality of a performance? Can artificial systems be ethically responsible custodians of cultural memory and artistic heritage? How do we design inclusive AI tools that protect human dignity - not only cultural heritage, but the persons and communities behind it? These questions are directly relevant to the AIxIA audience, which increasingly operates at the boundary between technical AI research and its social, cultural, and humanistic implications.