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25 January 2026. Expert commentary in "When AI art starts rewriting Scotland’s visual identity" by Laura Pollock, The National.
19 December 2025. Research cited in Science magazine commentary by Celina Zhao, "When Creating Images, AI Keeps Remixing the Same 12 Stock Photo Clichés." https://doi.org/10.1126/science.zfglxgr. 5 November 2025. Research cited in Nature feature by Jo Marchant, "Can AI Be Truly Creative?" https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03570-y. 17 November 2025. Podcast Where the Wild Thoughts Are, “Can slow AI make us more human?”, Season 1, Episode 14. 13 November 2025. Invited speaker in workshop "AI and creative work: ethical and design challenges", TU Eindhoven. 8 November 2025. Invited panelist in AI and IP panel, 2nd Saturday AI + Justice. 21 October 2025. Invited panelist at the Swedish premiere of Yūrei: Ghost of the AI Empire, Lund. 2-3 October 2025. Invited speaker in workshop 'The Composition of Creative Intelligence', Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. 12 September 2025. In conversation with Rachel Maclean in 'Truth in the Age of AI', British Science Festival, FACT Liverpool. 9 September 2025. `Content Authenticities: Expanding the Scope of User Engagement with Media Provenance Data'. UKAIRS, Newcastle. August 2025. Authenticity Unmasked: AI and the Future of Creativity, Artful Inquiry Podcast. 31 July 2025. Speaker in AI & Authenticity event for the AI Opener for Destinations programme. 21 July 2025. Keynote speaker at Sensilab Creativity and AI workshop, Monash University, Prato, 21-25 July 2025. 2 July 2025. Creative Crossroads: Will AI kill the arts? Holyrood Magazine. 19 June 2025. Panellist at event at the Scottish Parliament to discuss Scotland’s creative future - bridging policy, culture, and industry. Organised by Mamba Sounds. 11 June 2025. Panellist in Data CARE Workshop II: Diversifying Creative AI and Cultural Value, Inclusive AI Lab, University of Utrecht. 28 May 2025. Panelist in Impact Festival 2025, University of Edinburgh, ECR Impact Showcase. |
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26 May 2025. Responsible Innovation in Creative AI: Early Findings from the CREA-TEC Project. CDCS talk.
21 May 2025. Responsible AI in creative practices: Insights from the CREA-TEC Fellowship. Anglia Ruskin University talk series.
28 March 2025. Authenticity in Context: The Values of Provenance Data for Creators and their Audiences, Controversies in the Data Society Seminar Series.
7 March 2025. Generative AI Use in the Workflow of Creative professionals, A Longitudinal Study. Workshop on Human-centred AI, Istituto Dalle Molle per l'intelligenza artificiale (IDSIA USI-SUPSI), Lugano.
6 March 2025. Radio Interview for Radio Svizzera Italiana, Seidisera. 9 March 2025 (from 24').
6 March 2025. Speaker at special Event at Asilo Ciani, co-organised with Lugano Living Lab: Sound Dialogues: the responsible use of AI in artistic creation, w/ Serena Cangiano and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay).
4 March 2025. Speaker at Creative Edinburgh, Creativity and Generative AI, Creative Circles event, online.
20 February 2025. 'Creativity, Friend or Foe?' event, British Library, London. Video available here [opens in a new tab].
19 February 2025. Man vs Machine: How AI Is Upending the Creative Process. EQT Tech.
February 2025. Interviewed by Anneloes Van Gaalen for The Institute of Creativity blog.
15 January 2025. Interviewed by Francisco Tigre Moura for the Live Innovation podcast. Video available here.
13 November 2024. 'Tech Meets Tradition: AI and the Art of Jewellery', The Jewellery Collective, Edinburgh.
6 November 2024. 'Creativity in the Age of AI' Roundtable, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design Indiana University.
10 October 2024. 'What is the Value of Integrating AI into Creative Processes?', ‘Responsible AI Futures’ Hybrid Seminar. Watch the video here.
26 October 2024. Keynote at Workspace Meets, `Shaping a Responsible Future in the Use of Generative AI in the Creative Sector'.
28 June 2024. Speaker and panelist in Exploring AI in Design & Creative Media panel at Creative Tech Scotland.
25 June 2024. 'Harnessing AI Responsibility: Strategies for Ethical Implementation', Driving Responsible Growth with AI in Marketing, DMA event.
24 May 2024. Panel member in Future Leaders Network event, 'AI: Communications, Politics and the Future', Edinburgh.
28 April 2024. Panel member in 'Digital transformations: a dynamic encounter between music, art and AI', Edinburgh.
25 April 2024. Panel member in 'Marketing and Communications Forum- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Takeover', University of Edinburgh.
05 April 2024. Panel member in The BOX Panel and Opening Event, 2024 Edinburgh Science Festival, Inspace.
12 October 2023. 'Toward Human-Centred Co-Creativity with Technology', Design Informatics Webinar, The University of Edinburgh. Recording available here.
17 May 2023. `Imagination, Creativity, and Agency', Conference: Imagination and Creativity, Geneva, Switzerland.
25 March 2023. `Hybrid Creativity: AI and the Future of Creative Industries', First Summit of the Alumni del Collegio Superiore, Università di Bologna.
16 June 2022. 'Shared Agency and Causation in Human-AI Interaction Dynamics', Conference on Formal Models of Causation in Law, ZeRdiT centre, University of Hamburg.
10 June 2022. Discussion Group on Causal Reasoning and Creativity, 2022 Edition of the CapoCaccia Workshops toward Neuromorphic Intelligence, Alghero.
25 April 2022. 'Artificial Creativity: Promises and Challenges’, Guest lecture for the course on Philosophy of Technology and AI, led by Luca Possati, University of Porto (online).
22 April 2022. ‘From Availability to Interaction’, Impulse Talk at the International Colloquium of the Centre for Human Data Society, University of Konstanz.
15 March 2022. 'Causal Representation: Toward a More Robust Artificial Intelligence'. Research Colloquium on Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Bern.
18 February 2021. 'What’s the Point of Machine Art? Reflecting on AI Art and its Discontents’, Scottish Aesthetics Forum Talk, University of Edinburgh, online.
8 January 2021. 'Disclosing Musical Works’ Meaning: A Comment on Dodd’s “Being True to Works of Music”’, American Philosophical Association Eastern Meeting 2021, online.
21 May 2025. Responsible AI in creative practices: Insights from the CREA-TEC Fellowship. Anglia Ruskin University talk series.
28 March 2025. Authenticity in Context: The Values of Provenance Data for Creators and their Audiences, Controversies in the Data Society Seminar Series.
7 March 2025. Generative AI Use in the Workflow of Creative professionals, A Longitudinal Study. Workshop on Human-centred AI, Istituto Dalle Molle per l'intelligenza artificiale (IDSIA USI-SUPSI), Lugano.
6 March 2025. Radio Interview for Radio Svizzera Italiana, Seidisera. 9 March 2025 (from 24').
6 March 2025. Speaker at special Event at Asilo Ciani, co-organised with Lugano Living Lab: Sound Dialogues: the responsible use of AI in artistic creation, w/ Serena Cangiano and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay).
4 March 2025. Speaker at Creative Edinburgh, Creativity and Generative AI, Creative Circles event, online.
20 February 2025. 'Creativity, Friend or Foe?' event, British Library, London. Video available here [opens in a new tab].
19 February 2025. Man vs Machine: How AI Is Upending the Creative Process. EQT Tech.
February 2025. Interviewed by Anneloes Van Gaalen for The Institute of Creativity blog.
15 January 2025. Interviewed by Francisco Tigre Moura for the Live Innovation podcast. Video available here.
13 November 2024. 'Tech Meets Tradition: AI and the Art of Jewellery', The Jewellery Collective, Edinburgh.
6 November 2024. 'Creativity in the Age of AI' Roundtable, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design Indiana University.
10 October 2024. 'What is the Value of Integrating AI into Creative Processes?', ‘Responsible AI Futures’ Hybrid Seminar. Watch the video here.
26 October 2024. Keynote at Workspace Meets, `Shaping a Responsible Future in the Use of Generative AI in the Creative Sector'.
28 June 2024. Speaker and panelist in Exploring AI in Design & Creative Media panel at Creative Tech Scotland.
25 June 2024. 'Harnessing AI Responsibility: Strategies for Ethical Implementation', Driving Responsible Growth with AI in Marketing, DMA event.
24 May 2024. Panel member in Future Leaders Network event, 'AI: Communications, Politics and the Future', Edinburgh.
28 April 2024. Panel member in 'Digital transformations: a dynamic encounter between music, art and AI', Edinburgh.
25 April 2024. Panel member in 'Marketing and Communications Forum- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Takeover', University of Edinburgh.
05 April 2024. Panel member in The BOX Panel and Opening Event, 2024 Edinburgh Science Festival, Inspace.
12 October 2023. 'Toward Human-Centred Co-Creativity with Technology', Design Informatics Webinar, The University of Edinburgh. Recording available here.
17 May 2023. `Imagination, Creativity, and Agency', Conference: Imagination and Creativity, Geneva, Switzerland.
25 March 2023. `Hybrid Creativity: AI and the Future of Creative Industries', First Summit of the Alumni del Collegio Superiore, Università di Bologna.
16 June 2022. 'Shared Agency and Causation in Human-AI Interaction Dynamics', Conference on Formal Models of Causation in Law, ZeRdiT centre, University of Hamburg.
10 June 2022. Discussion Group on Causal Reasoning and Creativity, 2022 Edition of the CapoCaccia Workshops toward Neuromorphic Intelligence, Alghero.
25 April 2022. 'Artificial Creativity: Promises and Challenges’, Guest lecture for the course on Philosophy of Technology and AI, led by Luca Possati, University of Porto (online).
22 April 2022. ‘From Availability to Interaction’, Impulse Talk at the International Colloquium of the Centre for Human Data Society, University of Konstanz.
15 March 2022. 'Causal Representation: Toward a More Robust Artificial Intelligence'. Research Colloquium on Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, University of Bern.
18 February 2021. 'What’s the Point of Machine Art? Reflecting on AI Art and its Discontents’, Scottish Aesthetics Forum Talk, University of Edinburgh, online.
8 January 2021. 'Disclosing Musical Works’ Meaning: A Comment on Dodd’s “Being True to Works of Music”’, American Philosophical Association Eastern Meeting 2021, online.
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14 November 2024. 'Redefining Scientific Creativity in the Age of Generative AI', with Atoosa Karsizadeh, Panel Biannual Conference Philosophy of Science Association, New Orleans, 14th November 2024.
June 2024. `Perceptions of Embodiment & Creativity in Cases of Human-Technology Co-Creation', Poster presentation at the 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity, with Laura Herman. ICCC’24, June 2024.
June 2024. `Customizing the Balance between User and System Agency in Human-AI Co-Creative Processes', with Solange Margarido, 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC’24, June 2024.
May 2024. `A User-centered Framework for Human-AI Co-creativity'. Extended Abstract presentation (pre-recorded online video), with Solange Margarido. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24), May 2024.
19 October 2023. 'AI and Art: Non-Human, Still Human, or All Too Human?', 7th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC), Warsaw, Poland (presented by Oreste Campagner).
24 March 2023. `The Generative Revolution: How AI will Transform Creativity', KI Camp 2023, online.
13 March 2023. 'The Role of Embodiment in Perceptions of Creativity' (poster), Interdisciplinary College 2023}, Möhnesee-Günne, Germany.
29 September 2022. 'Prediction: An Algorithmic Principle Meeting Neuroscience and Machine Learning Halfway', 3rd International Workshop on Human-Like Computing at the 2nd International Joint Conference on Learning & Reasoning (IJCLR) 2022.
7 July 2022. 'Perceptions of Creativity in Artistic and Scientific Processes’, Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Coimbra.
30 June 2022. 'The (Artificial) Physicality of Creativity: How Embodiment Influences Perceptions of Creativity’, International Conference on Computational Creativity 2022, Bozen.
3 February 2022. 'Climbing the Ladder: How Agents Reach Counterfactual Thinking', 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, online.
28 September 2021. 'Reaching Out-of-Distribution Generalization Through Robustness’, 4th Conference on "Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence", online.
7 June 2021. ‘Is Artistic Creativity Necessarily Human?’, XPhiEU2021, online.
8 April 2021. ‘On the Relevance of Understanding for Creativity’, AISB2021, online.
20 March 2021. ‘Everyone Can Change a Musical Work’, American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Meeting, online.
8 July 2020. ‘Humans Don’t Like AI Art’, xCoAx Conference: 8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, online.
12 June 2019. ‘Intentionality and Creativity in AI-generated Music’, Ernst Mach Workshop: Posthumanism, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.
16 April 2019. ‘AI-Generated Music: Creativity and Autonomy’, Philosophy After AI: Language, Imagination, and Creativity Symposium, AISB Convention 2019, Falmouth University.
15 April 2019. ‘Generative Adversarial Networks as a Creative Model of Music Composition’, British Society of Aesthetics Connections conference 2019: Creativity Across the Arts and Sciences, Bristol.
26 July 2018, 'Robo-Bach: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Musically Creative?', Creativity in the Arts, Science, and Mind conference, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.
5 April 2018, 'Authenticity in Practice: An Ontological Justification for Contextual Authenticity', ASA Pacific Meeting, Asilomar, California, U.S.
20 May 2017, ‘A Revisionary Account of Musical Improvisation and Authenticity within Musical Stage Theory’, Conference on Authenticity versus Improvisation in the Philosophy of Music, University of Bern, Switzerland.
15 October 2016, ‘A Defence of Musical Stage Theory’, Arché 9th Graduate Conference, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
24 May 2016, ‘An Alternative Account for the Ontology of Musical Works: Musical Stage Theory’, McGill Philosophy Workshop, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
June 2024. `Perceptions of Embodiment & Creativity in Cases of Human-Technology Co-Creation', Poster presentation at the 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity, with Laura Herman. ICCC’24, June 2024.
June 2024. `Customizing the Balance between User and System Agency in Human-AI Co-Creative Processes', with Solange Margarido, 15th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC’24, June 2024.
May 2024. `A User-centered Framework for Human-AI Co-creativity'. Extended Abstract presentation (pre-recorded online video), with Solange Margarido. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’24), May 2024.
19 October 2023. 'AI and Art: Non-Human, Still Human, or All Too Human?', 7th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC), Warsaw, Poland (presented by Oreste Campagner).
24 March 2023. `The Generative Revolution: How AI will Transform Creativity', KI Camp 2023, online.
13 March 2023. 'The Role of Embodiment in Perceptions of Creativity' (poster), Interdisciplinary College 2023}, Möhnesee-Günne, Germany.
29 September 2022. 'Prediction: An Algorithmic Principle Meeting Neuroscience and Machine Learning Halfway', 3rd International Workshop on Human-Like Computing at the 2nd International Joint Conference on Learning & Reasoning (IJCLR) 2022.
7 July 2022. 'Perceptions of Creativity in Artistic and Scientific Processes’, Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Coimbra.
30 June 2022. 'The (Artificial) Physicality of Creativity: How Embodiment Influences Perceptions of Creativity’, International Conference on Computational Creativity 2022, Bozen.
3 February 2022. 'Climbing the Ladder: How Agents Reach Counterfactual Thinking', 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, online.
28 September 2021. 'Reaching Out-of-Distribution Generalization Through Robustness’, 4th Conference on "Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence", online.
7 June 2021. ‘Is Artistic Creativity Necessarily Human?’, XPhiEU2021, online.
8 April 2021. ‘On the Relevance of Understanding for Creativity’, AISB2021, online.
20 March 2021. ‘Everyone Can Change a Musical Work’, American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Meeting, online.
8 July 2020. ‘Humans Don’t Like AI Art’, xCoAx Conference: 8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, online.
12 June 2019. ‘Intentionality and Creativity in AI-generated Music’, Ernst Mach Workshop: Posthumanism, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.
16 April 2019. ‘AI-Generated Music: Creativity and Autonomy’, Philosophy After AI: Language, Imagination, and Creativity Symposium, AISB Convention 2019, Falmouth University.
15 April 2019. ‘Generative Adversarial Networks as a Creative Model of Music Composition’, British Society of Aesthetics Connections conference 2019: Creativity Across the Arts and Sciences, Bristol.
26 July 2018, 'Robo-Bach: Can Artificial Intelligence Be Musically Creative?', Creativity in the Arts, Science, and Mind conference, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.
5 April 2018, 'Authenticity in Practice: An Ontological Justification for Contextual Authenticity', ASA Pacific Meeting, Asilomar, California, U.S.
20 May 2017, ‘A Revisionary Account of Musical Improvisation and Authenticity within Musical Stage Theory’, Conference on Authenticity versus Improvisation in the Philosophy of Music, University of Bern, Switzerland.
15 October 2016, ‘A Defence of Musical Stage Theory’, Arché 9th Graduate Conference, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
24 May 2016, ‘An Alternative Account for the Ontology of Musical Works: Musical Stage Theory’, McGill Philosophy Workshop, McGill University, Montréal, Canada.
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