Ying-Chieh Lee & Kingston School of Art / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Embracing the Complexities of Authenticity (2025--)
This project seeks to map the landscape of authenticity perceptions and needs within creative and media communities. Our aim is to identify gaps in current policy and technological frameworks and propose better strategies for communicating authenticity and provenance signals. With Nick Bryan-Kinns (UAL), Martin Parker (UoE), and Kyrill Potapov (UCL). Supported by UKRI AHRC / BRAID. |
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CREA-TEC: Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives (Principal Investigator, 2024--)
AHRC-funded BRAID Research Fellowship in partnership with Adobe. This fellowship examines key aspects of the creative process to support artists’ needs in an ethical way when using AI. The project includes a study with creatives, an exhibition for public awareness, and actionable guidelines for the development of generative AI technologies. Supported by the Bridging Responsible AI Divides programme with funds received from the Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant number AH/X007146/F]. |
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DECaDE: Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (Co-Investigator, 2023--)
DECaDE is 5-year National Research Centre exploring how emerging data technologies could transform our digital economy through decentralised platforms. The project is a partnership between the University of Surrey as lead institution, the Centre for Design Informatics and Edinburgh Law School at the University of Edinburgh, and the Digital Catapult. UKRI EPSRC AH/Y00115X/1 |
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CoSTAR, RealtimeLAB (Co-Investigator, 2024--)
Announced in June 2023, the CoSTAR programme will provide researchers, companies and institutions across the UK with the infrastructure they need to conduct world-class research and development in screen and performance technology. The Realtime Lab is part of the CoSTAR network, and it will build on existing Creative Industries Clusters programmes in Abertay and Edinburgh (InGAME & Creative Informatics) to create and develop state-of-the-art facilities, resources and expertise, comprising new virtual production and performance studios in Edinburgh and Dundee set up to drive the next generation of screen technology and on-set virtual production. UKRI AHRC AH/Y00115X/1 |
Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN - CC BY 4.0
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Generative Creative Visions (Co-Lead, 2024)
Multidisciplinary initiative exploring the intersections of Generative AI and creativity. Participants in two workshops in February 2025 collaborated with a group of colleagues from different disciplines to generate ideas and prototypes for scoping projects around these themes. Three projects have been awarded funding to take these proposals forward. Link to the project webpage [opens in a new tab] Funded by the Generative AI Lab, University of Edinburgh |
Embodied Agents in Contemporary Visual Art (EACVA): How Robotics and AI Could Influence Creativity (Former Co-Principal Investigator)
In collaboration with Prof. Frederic Fol Leymarie, Goldsmiths College, University of London. The project will address the questions of embodiment, creativity and human-robot interaction through a multi-disciplinary collaboration between artists, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, as well as computer art and robotics engineers. The collaboration will unfold throughout artistic residencies and workshops, during which we will develop a methodology informed by our respective fields of expertise while also producing artworks with state-of-the-art robotic painting and drawing systems.
The project is funded by the UK-Germany AHRC-DFG Funding Initiative in the Humanities.
In collaboration with Prof. Frederic Fol Leymarie, Goldsmiths College, University of London. The project will address the questions of embodiment, creativity and human-robot interaction through a multi-disciplinary collaboration between artists, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, as well as computer art and robotics engineers. The collaboration will unfold throughout artistic residencies and workshops, during which we will develop a methodology informed by our respective fields of expertise while also producing artworks with state-of-the-art robotic painting and drawing systems.
The project is funded by the UK-Germany AHRC-DFG Funding Initiative in the Humanities.
Impressions from the Graffitizer 2 by Daniel Berio during the workshop at ICCC'22
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The Role of Embodiment in the Perception of Human and Artificial Creativity (Principal Investigator, 2022) - ENDED
In this project, academic research and the creative technology industry join forces to better understand what artists working with AI technology should do in order to communicate and present their creative processes and products, avoiding the societal biases and resentment that algorithmic art often generates. In particular, we are interested in answering the question of how artists' embodiment affects the perception of the creative process that they perform. The project is conducted in collaboration with Laura Herman (Oxford Internet Institute and Adobe Research) and Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe Research) and is funded by the Intersectoral Programme of the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz. You can watch a video of the workshop here. |
The Algorithmic Pedestal exhibit, London, January 2023
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AI Futures and the Curated Visitor Experience (Co-Investigator, 2022) - ENDED
This three-part project interrogates the impact of AI on cultural heritages and the presentation of these AI-fueled cultural futures through public-facing exhibition spaces across the UK and Germany. This project will interrogate the agency of AI situated within exhibit contexts, exploring its role in creativity as a device that is both generative and reflective. Further, this project methodologically pioneers the use of sensory ethnography and of visual content as an elicitation device. The project is funded by the Minderoo-Oxford Challenge Fund in AI Governance. |
Agency and Scientific Creativity (Principal Investigator, 2022) - ENDED
The main questions that the project aims to answer are: "Is scientific creativity different from artistic creativity?" and "Can artistic agents be perceived as carriers of scientific discoveries and be considered creative?". In the workshop "Agency, Life, and Creativity" we discussed the concepts of creativity and agency in different fields of application. The survey investigated the response to creativity in scientific discoveries carried out by artificial systems. The project is supported by the Dr. August und Annelies Karst Stiftung.
The main questions that the project aims to answer are: "Is scientific creativity different from artistic creativity?" and "Can artistic agents be perceived as carriers of scientific discoveries and be considered creative?". In the workshop "Agency, Life, and Creativity" we discussed the concepts of creativity and agency in different fields of application. The survey investigated the response to creativity in scientific discoveries carried out by artificial systems. The project is supported by the Dr. August und Annelies Karst Stiftung.
