Abstract
These days’ almost manic attention to AI should also trigger a response in the field of art. Not necessarily a denial of AI, but an “celebration” of what it means to be human. Can reflecting AI through art lead us to ‘rediscover’ our human potential? Rediscover our unique abilities, what we take for granted: like being able to create community through music and dance, like dealing with complicated ethical and moral questions through theater and film, like understanding through the visual arts what we do not see in our daily reality? These abilities are something we have cultivated over thousands of years, a process of formation that is both biology AND culture: Music is a human surplus phenomenon, most likely sprung from our language ability (Patel, A. 2010). Therefore, music learning has many common features with language learning (Solli, M., Aksdal, E. and Inderberg, J. P. 2021). Just as we learn a native language through being surrounded by it, and through participating in social communities where it is used, music has traditionally been learned through imitation and through participation in (musical) communities. How will AI affect these uniquely human forms of forming community/common consciousness? Time as a prerequisite for process, process as a prerequisite for exploration, exploration as a prerequisite for reflexive judgment/creativity. We will share our artistic research from a studio recording session, where our session were observed by other researchers and where we focused on the idea of ‘Try and Fail’ or ‘Not knowing’
Presenters
Njål ØlnesProfessor (INN) and Visiting Professor (NLA), Music, University of Inland Norway (INN); NLA University College, Oslo, Østfold, Norway
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Theme
2026 Special Focus—Modeling Life Systems: Art, Algorithms, Ecologies
KEYWORDS
JAZZ; INTERPLAY; STUDIO; ANALYSIS; OBSERVATION
