CoCreativity and symbolic interaction
the REACH Project
Date: April 5, 2023, 13:00
Place: Tokyo University of the Arts, Senju Campus, Lecture Room 2
Creative interactions between humans and machines can be studied from different perspectives (algorithmics, AI, signal processing, cognition, anthropology) and modalities in order to highlight the conditions under which these interactions may occur, their temporal adaptation dynamics, their logical strategies, in order to fully exploit their creative potential.
We have proposed the expression co-creativity between human and artificial agents (cyber-human systems) in order to emphasize the fact that creativity is a dynamic process defined by emergence rather than a state. It results from cross-learning processes between interacting agents and involves distributed agentivity leading to structure formation and rich co-evolution of musical forms especially in improvisation.
This indeed neutralizes the endless question (and philosophical aporia) of whether artificial entities can be qualified as “creative” by themselves, and shifts the research interest to a pragmatic approach : promote the conditions of co-creative emergence in cyber-human encounters and put the musician in control of this « machine musicianship ».
The Somax2 improvised interaction system, one of the recent results of the REACH project, will be demonstrated in a practical way in this presentation.
