Thursday, June 12, 2025, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Friday, June 13, 2025, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Exploring How AI is Reshaping Creative Work, Power Structures, and Labor Dynamics.
The Creative Work and New Technologies special issue and research conference is steadily approaching, focusing on the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in reshaping creative labor markets. The event will virtually explore the impact of AI on worker autonomy, skills dynamics, and the organization of creative labor. Key themes include AI’s influence on creative autonomy, skills transformation, and its implications for social equity in the creative industries. This conference will examine how AI-driven tools are changing the power structures and processes that define creative work.
Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission Deadline: December 1, 2024
- Notification of Acceptance for Conference: January 1, 2025
- Virtual Research Conference: June 12-13, 2025
- Full Paper Submission Deadline: August 1, 2025
This special issue invites scholars to analyze how AI and technology are transforming the power structures, processes, and equity of creative labor.
Program Schedule (Eastern Time)
*As of March 1, 2025*
June 12, 2025 | |
1:00 PM | Opening Remarks |
1:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Michael Palmedo, U.S. Copyright Office: How Might AI Affect the Labor Market for Writers? |
1:45 - 2:15 PM | Hayoung Seo, Vanderbilt University: Fair Use or Copyright? Navigating Sociological Discourses between AI Corporations and Creative Workers |
2:15 - 2:20 PM | Break |
2:20 - 2:50 PM | Jun Zhou, University of Michigan -Goddess in the Machine: Gendered Humanness Work in the AI Automation Crisis |
2:50 - 3:20 PM | Emmanuelle Walkowiak, RMIT University: The Complementarity Versus Substitution Between Generative AI and Human Creativity |
3:20 - 3:50 PM | Ben Eltham, Monash University: The Lived Experience of Labour Displacement by AI Amongst Australian Illustrators and Photographers |
3:50 - 4:00 PM | Closing Remarks |
June 13, 2025 | |
9:00 AM | Opening Remarks |
9:15 - 9:45 AM | Magkou Matina, University Côte d’Azur - Creative Workers' Voices on AI Regulation Policies and Industry Developments: A Comparative US-EU Perspective |
9:45 - 10:15 AM | Valeria Pulignano, HBKU and KU Leuven - Reframing 'Art-for-Arts-Sake': Gen-AI and the Pursuit of Purposeful and Creative Meaning-Making in Professional Translation |
10:15 - 10:45 AM | Ellen Loots, Carolina Dalla Chiesa & Anne Heslinga, Erasmus University Rotterdam - Generative AI at Play: Surveying Interprofessional Boundary Work in Game Development |
10:45 - 10:50 AM | Break |
10:50 - 11:20 AM | Julia Ticona, Rutgers University & University of Pennsylvania - From Motorized Projectors to Generative AI: Examining the Fraught Relationship Between Technology and Creative Work in Hollywood |
11:20 - 11:50 AM | Alexandrea J. Ravenelle, UNC Chapel Hill & Ken Cai Kowalski - AI is Taking Over the World...So I May as Well Just Go Along With It: Fractured Interest Identities Among Creative Workers |
11:50 - 12:00 PM | Closing Remarks |
Contact
For questions regarding our 2025 Biennial Research Conference, please contact ccaoneil@iu.edu.
For questions inquiries about the special issue or to discuss potential submissions, please contact the guest editors:
- Joanna Woronkowicz jworonko@iu.edu
- Doug Noonan noonand@iu.edu
- Rachel Skaggs skaggs.131@gmail.com
