Date & Time:
Mar 1, 2024 (Fri), 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Mar 2, 2024 (Sat), 9:30 am – 6:30 pm
Programme Rundown: here
AI, Music, and Creativity: At a Crossroads is an international symposium jointly hosted by the HKU Department of Music and the AI & Humanity Lab at the Department of Philosophy. This event is a direct response to the intensifying debate over AI’s wide-ranging impact on the arts and the cultural and creative industries. In bringing together leading scholars and practitioners engaging with the topic from both industry and academia and across the disciplinary spectrum, the symposium aims to promote balanced exchange between technological-algorithmic and cultural-critical perspectives over the pressing issues surrounding AI’s disruption and/or transformation of music and the creative fields at large. The opening and closing keynote addresses will be delivered by Dr. Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang (Google DeepMind; Mila; MIT) and Dr. Bob L. T. Sturm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), this year’s Rayson Huang Lecturers. Latest updates of a forthcoming peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that brings into dialogue music studies (broadly conceived) and data science will also be announced at the event.
This symposium is programmed as part of Music + Data, an international, dual-sited symposia series featuring two linked events, with the first taking place at HKU (March 1-2, 2024) and the second at UCLA (March 8, 2024). Admission free. Registration is required.
Pre-symposium Event
The Winning Tune: Music Contests in the AI Era
A conversation with the organisers, judges, and winners of international AI music/songwriting contests.
Moderator: Rujing Stacy Huang (The University of Hong Kong)
1 MAR 2024 | FRI | 4:00PM-4:50PM
Opening Keynote/Rayson Huang Lecture
Deep Learning for Musical Creativity
One-day International Symposium
AI, Music, and Creativity: At a Crossroads
Giorgio Biancorosso (The University of Hong Kong)
Nikita Braguinski, (RWTH Aachen University)
Lamtharn “Hanoi” Hantrakul (Winner of AI Song Contest 2022)
Thomas Hodgson (University of California, Los Angeles)
Angus Lee (The University of Hong Kong)
Deirdre Loughridge (Northeastern University)
Nate Sharadin (The University of Hong Kong)
Mark Simos (Berklee College of Music)
2 MAR 2024 | SAT | 9:30AM-4:40PM
Closing Keynote/Rayson Huang Lecture
