Workshop in Cultural Affairs

Alice Demattos Guimarães, Copenhagen Business School
September 23, 12pm ET/6pm CET 

Topic: "The Creative Condition in the Age of AI - How Artists Negotiate Creativity Across Human-AI Relations"

Alice Demattos Guimarães is a cultural economist and Postdoctoral Researcher at Copenhagen Business School, where she is part of the creAIte project on transformative technologies, creativity, and value creation in the cultural sector. Trained in economics and interdisciplinary social sciences, her research spans cultural and creative industries, cultural policy, alternative finance, and digital transformation. Her doctoral research examined crowdfunding as a responsible innovation for cultural production, while her current work explores how generative AI is reshaping creative practices, cultural organisations, and processes of value creation. Across her research, Alice is particularly interested in questions of ethics, inclusion, and cultural policy, as well as bringing perspectives from the Global South into international debates on culture and creativity.

Doug Noonan & Joanna Woronkowicz, Indiana University
October 7, 12pm ET

Topic: "AI in the Arts: First the Data, Then the Debate"

Join us for a workshop in two acts. In Act I, Joanna Woronkowicz and Doug Noonan (professors and co-directors of the Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation Lab) will share fresh findings drawn from a national survey of more than 2,000 arts and design alumni (SNAAP Pulse). The results offer a rare look at how creative workers are actually using generative AI: who is adopting it, where it enters their work, which tasks it supports, how routinely it is being used, and what artists see as its benefits, consequences, and concerns.

Act II brings the friendly main event: Doug vs. Joanna. They will debate where AI in the arts may be heading. How will artists ultimately incorporate it into their practices? What will it mean for creative jobs, earnings, productivity, skills, and professional identity? How should we think about authorship, authenticity, copyright, credit, and responsibility? Will audiences place a premium on art that is in-person, artisanal, and verifiably human, or become increasingly comfortable with hybrid and AI-mediated culture?

In the final 30 minutes, attendees will join the debate with questions, objections, examples, and predictions of their own. Come for the data. Stay for the disagreement.

Jordi McKenzie, Macquarie University
October 21, 6pm ET

Topic: "UK authors’ licensing preferences for Generative AI training: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment"

Jordi McKenzie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics. He is an applied economist with broad-spanning research interests related to the entertainment and cultural industries.  His research has covered a variety of topics relating to consumer demand, industry behaviour, and policy specific to these industries. He has published in leading journals in economics including Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Review of Industrial Organization, Information Economics and Policy, International Journal of Cultural Policy, and Journal of Cultural Economics, among others.  He currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cultural Economics.

Trevor Meagher, Florida State University
November 4, 12pm ET

Topic: "College towns and creativity: educational institutions and local cultural economies"

Trevor Meagher is an Assistant Professor of Arts Administration in the Department of Arts Education at Florida State University, where he also serves as Program Director for the MA in Arts Administration. His research explores the evolving role of arts organizations in contemporary society, focusing on cultural policy, arts advocacy, creative placemaking, and cross-sector collaboration. He received his PhD in Public Administration and Public Policy as well as an MPA from the University of Texas at Arlington, and he holds a Bachelor of Music Performance with minors in Arts Management and Arts Entrepreneurship from Southern Methodist University.

He is an active participant in academic conferences and has presented at the Social Theory, Politics, and the Arts annual conference, the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action’s annual conference, and the Public Management Research Conference, among others. He has published in Cities, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, the Journal of Philanthropy, and The Future of Charity Marketing (ed. Mitchell & Hyde), and his work has been featured by the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council. At the 2025 Association of Arts Administration Educators conference, he received the award for Best Paper by an Emerging Arts Administration Educator.

Before joining FSU, Trevor held professional roles at Southern Methodist University, UT Arlington, the Coppell Arts Center, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

TBD
November 18, 12pm ET/6pm CET

Topic: "TBD"

Trine Bille, Copenhagen Business School
December 9, 12pm ET/6pm CET

Topic: "TBD"

Trine Bille is a researcher in cultural economics whose work examines how economic systems structure the creative sector and influence the choices of artists, consumers, and policymakers. Integrating multidisciplinary tools with diverse economic frameworks, her research spans artist labor markets, non-market valuation of cultural goods, and public funding systems. She also investigates arts participation, creative entrepreneurship, art markets, and the role of culture in urban and regional development to better understand the broader public value and economic dynamics of the creative industries.