About the research

The AI + Digital Futures team investigates the relationship between digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), and the arts and humanities. The team is comprised of a highly interdisciplinary group of faculty brought together from across Indiana University, including from disciplines such as art, music, computer science, cognitive science, media studies, and science and technology studies. Together, we reflect critically on topics such as human creativity, labor and automation, surveillance, public space and publics in everyday life, ethics, play and improvisation, and sound and visuality. The team brings exhibitions, artists, authors and renowned experts to campus to participate in activities related to the study of AI that can inspire deep conversation and introspection.

Some of the events organized by the AI+DF team include a thematic artificial intelligence exhibition at the Grunwald Gallery of Art, an Institute for Advanced Study symposium on the theme “Intelligence,” and a graduate student research expo on AI in the arts and humanities. Past visiting speakers have included Chad Jenkins (University of Michigan), Helen Armstrong (NC State), Lauren Goodlad (Rutgers University), Stephen Cave (University of Cambridge), and Kanta Dihal (Imperial College London). We are eager to partner with groups and individuals within IU and at other institutions to bring sustained and thoughtful engagement to questions about what means to be human in a moment of complex technological change.