Art & AI (!) Who Is the Artist now?

When

Sunday, 15 November 2026, 18:00–21:00

Where

Øbro Jagtvej Library, Jagtvej 227, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, København

About the event

Art & AI (!) Who Is the Artist now? You are welcome both if you have read or not read the book, but please read the description so you know the theme, which most people have an opinion on :-) Creativity, Originality, Technology, and the Meaning of Art Inspired by David Hajdu’s The Uncanny Muse, this meetup explores a question that has become surprisingly difficult: what actually makes something art? Machines have influenced artistic creation for centuries, from mechanical instruments and photography to synthesizers and digital effects. AI may be another tool in that history. Or it may represent something fundamentally different: a technology capable of producing images, music, and writing with increasingly little direct human creation. So where does creativity actually reside—in the work, the intention, the process, or the person behind it? Topics we’ll touch on: Can AI genuinely create, or only imitate? Does art need a human intention behind it? If someone creates an extraordinary image with a prompt, who is the artist? Is originality even as important as we think? Why do we accept photography, synthesizers, and digital effects as artistic tools but react differently to AI? Does…