Sunday July 7th - Saturday July 13th, 2024

Summer School on

Artificial Intelligence & Creativity

Bertinoro (FC), Residential Center of the University of Bologna, Italy

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The goal of the school is to bring together graduate and PhD students pursuing diplomas in computer science, engineering, arts, design, law or humanities who are eager to expand their knowledge of AI and its applications in creative domains.

It is also intended for academics, and creative professionals, who want to incorporate AI tools and techniques into their work and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in AI and creativity.

The Summer School is a Strategic Action
of the UnaEuropa Consortium

Steering Commettee:

Andrea Asperti, Alberto Naibo, Arianna Novaro, Camille Salinesi, Tony Veale, Célia Zolynski

Organizing Commettee:

Andrea Asperti, Fabio Merizzi, Alberto Naibo, Arianna Novaro, Salvatore Fiorilla

Speakers

Pablo Gervas Gómez-Navarro

Pablo Gervás is full professor on computational creativity and natural language processing (Catedrático de Universidad) at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is the director of the NIL research group (nil.fdi.ucm.es) and for many years he was the director of the Instituto de Tecnología del Conocimiento (www.ucm.es/itc). Professor Gervás has expertise on automatic generation of (fictional) stories and poetry, and has a background in natural language generation, Computational Creativity, and narratology. He is the author of the PropperWryter software which was used in the process of creating Beyond the Fence -- the first computer generated musical, staged at the London West End in 2016.

Loreto Parisi

Loreto Parisi has a MSc in Computer Engineering from UniNa Federico II. He was part of the Splinder team, a micro-blogging platform developed in 2001 and later acquired by Dada Spa in 2006. In 2009 he co-founded Buzzreader, an online monitoring and web reputation platform. In 2010 he joined the founding team of Musixmatch, the world leading music data company with 80 millions users and 50 million active users. He is Director of Engineering and Artificial Intelligence and in 2022 Loreto and the AI Team devised the AI & metadata platform of Musixmatch Podcasts, a new platform for podcasters and listeners, driven by transcription by AI and community.

Yann Toma

Yann Toma is an artist-observer at the United Nations (New York), a University Professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a conceptual artist, a member of the ACTE Institute, director of the Master in Arts and Vision (International Master in EAS Creative Creation), co-director of the Master Art & Management of Innovation-Creative Industries. He is also an auditor at IHEST, a member of the Board of the Fondation des États-Unis, founder/curator of Sorbonne Artgallery, and president of Sorbonne Sustainable Development, a collaborative network structure. He is also a knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.

Edouard Treppoz

Edouard Treppoz is Professor of Law at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, director the Master 2 degree in Audiovisual Law. He is specialized in copyright law in its internal, European and international dimensions. He has been appointed as a member of the International Law Association’s Committee, dedicated to intellectual property and private international law.

Mark T.Keane

Mark Keane is Chair of Computer Science at UCD. He has a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Trinity College Dublin (TCD, 1987) and a BA in Psychology from University College Dublin (UCD, 1982). Keane’s work spans the cognitive sciences and AI studying analogy and metaphor, creativity, surprise, understanding and explanation. His recent work on eXplainable AI (XAI) is inherently interdisciplinary as it develops novel AI explanation strategies that are then tested in psychological experiments. His group has won several best paper awards for work in Case Based Reasoning (at IJCAI, ICCBR) and national AI awards for innovation.

Tony Veale

Tony Veale is the outgoing chair of the international Association for Computational Creativity (ACC), and the author of several monographs on the topic of computational creativity and creative language generation, including Exploding The Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity (Bloomsbury, 2012), Twitterbots: Making Machines That Make Meaning (with Mike Cook; MIT Press, 2017) and Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor (MIT Press, 2021). He has researched the crossover between AI and language for three decades both in academia and in industry. He currently teaches courses on Computational Creativity, LLMs and Generative AI in UCD's school of Computer Science.

Célia Zolynski

Célia Zolynski is Professor of Law at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, director the Master 2 degree Creative and Digital Law, co-director of the Research Department on Immaterial Law of the Sorbonne (IRJS-DReDis) and codirector of the AI Observatory of Paris 1. She is member of the French National Committee for Ethics (CNPEN) and Digital and of the National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (CNCDH).

Venue

CEUB - Bertinoro Residential Center of the University of Bologna

Via Aldruda Frangipane, 6, 47032 Bertinoro Forli-Cesena, ITALY

Since 1994, the University Residential Centre at Bertinoro (Ce.U.B.) has worked in the field of vocational training, conferences, congresses and lectures.
Ce.U.B. provides both Italian and international universities, companies, agencies, and individuals with extensive conference and lodging facilities:

14 training rooms inside the “Bishop’s Fortress”, the Rivellino, St. Sylvester church and a Theatre;
86 bedrooms (single, twin, double), for a total amount of 130 beds;
A full service dining facility with 200 seats for breakfast, lunch and gala dinners.