ALGOFOLK

Are machines creative? Can algorithms make art? Will AI replace human invention?

These are the wrong questions. The ALGOFOLK project argues that a more productive way to approach these issues is by unpacking both sides of the automation = creativity equation, and accounting for what is already happening at their articulation through the highly specialized toolbox offered by human and social science approaches to technology.

As algorithmic systems become widely adopted across the globe, profoundly impacting both cultural industries and everyday media practices, it is urgent to understand the emerging relationship between creativity and automation. This interdisciplinary project seeks to theorize this relationship through the concept of algorithmic folklore.