The Artificial Creativity virtual conference aimed to stir a discussion about the cultural, societal and ethical aspects of artworks featuring artificial intelligence or robots engaged in creative production. The conference dates were 19–20 November 2020 and it was hosted by the research lab Medea, the School of Arts and Communication, and the Data Society research programme – all at Malmö University, Sweden. The conference received generous support from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Videos of keynotes and some participant presentations are available through Malmö University's video repository, MaU Play: https://play.mau.se/playlist/details/0_dvsr6i1f

Keynote speakers:

• Dr. habil. Andreas Broeckmann (Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany). "Robots versus Machines".
• Professor Mark Amerika (University of Colorado, US). "Fatal Error: Artificial Creative Intelligence (ACI)".
• Professor Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths University, UK). "Beyond Machine Vision: How to Build a Non-Trivial Perception Machine".

Participants:

• Arandas, Luís, Mick Grierson, and Miguel Carvalhais. "Continuous Contributions of Artificial Agents in Performance Regarding Static Artefacts".
• Ashton, Daniel. "Assembling Creative Work Futures: Automation and Portfolio Working in the Creative Economy".
• Axhamn, Johan. "EU Copyright Law and AI".
• Balfour, Lindsay. "Beauty is in the Eye of the Algorithm: Artificially Intelligent Creativity and its Ethical Implications".
• Carvalhais, Miguel and Rosemary Lee. "Spectral and Procedural: A Perspective on Artificial Creativity Through Computational Art".
• Chia, Aleena. "Agency and Automation in Digital Game Production".
• Chow, Pei-Sze. "Ghost in the (Hollywood) machine: emergent applications of artificial intelligence in the film industry".
• Coelho, Inês Rebanda. "Authorship of fictional texts generated by AI".
• Feher, Katalin. "Narrow AI results in narrow creativity: Concepts of creative process in a decade’s perspective from media to art".
• Gallagher, Brad. "Do GPT-2s Dream of Electric Poetry?"
• Goddard, Valentine. "Art can shape how AI is governed".
• Ivanova, Nevena. "Computational Creativity: A Philosophical Study".
• Kadish, David. "Designing Endemic Robots: An Experiment in Sound".
• Koh, Immanuel. "AI-Urban-Sketching in the Age of COVID-19".
• Leach, Neil. "AI and The Limits of Human Creativity".
• Maraffi, Christopher. "Sherlock Frankenstein: Transmedia Character Design with AI Breeding Tools".
• McGarrigle, Conor. "Art Washing Machine Learning".
• Muia, Julian. "Downstream: New Developments in Algorithmic Composition and Music Streaming".
• Olszewska, Anna. "Reflections on machine situationism".
• Stephensen, Jan Løhmann. "Artificial Creativity, Anthropocentrism and Post-Creativity – The Political Stakes".
• Trillo, Roberto Alonso, Peter Nelson, Daniel Shanken, François Mouillot, Mathis Antony, Ryan Au, and Maya Duan. "Collaborative Artistic Production Using Generative Adversarial Networks".
• Wagman, Kelly B. "Ambii: An Ambient & Non-Anthropomorphic Digital Assistant".
• Wasielewski, Amanda. "What role can AI play in the creation and study of art?"
• Wellner, Galit. "Layers of Imagination".
• Willcox, Stacey. "Artificial Synaesthesia: An exploration of machine learning image synthesis for soundscape audio visualisation".

The conference also featured a virtual exhibition in Mozilla's Hubs with the following presentations:

• Emard, Justine. "Supraorganism"
• Partadiredja, Reza Arkan, Davor Ljubenkov, and Carlos Alejandro Entrena Serrano. "AI or Human?"
• Goddard, Valentine. "Introducing the 'AI on a Social Mission' conference".

The virtual exhibition was produced by Maria Engberg and Jay David Bolter within the research project "Virtual conferencing to promote research and scholarly exchange during the current pandemic and possible future disruptions".