Upcoming lectures in 2025
Previously performed 19 to 30 November 2024 at the White Bear Theatre, London.
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Theatre about Science intends to map and reflect upon intersections of theatre and science, promote exchange and enlarge the knowledge on the field, trace the evolution of previous trends and identify new types of crossovers. …
Past events
My play Synchronicity will have a reading on June 14th at 2pm at the Episcopal Actor’s Guild in New York, NY.
Programme here.
I am speaking at the session Creative dialogues with technology.
In 1931 the brash and brilliant young physicist Wolfgang Pauli approached the world-renowned analyst Carl Jung for help. Pauli’s neurosis had wreaked such havoc with his psyche that when Jung first saw him, he felt as if the “wind had blown over from the lunatic asylum.” In their discussions they struck sparks off each other and in the end not one but both of them were changed. Synchronicity is about psychology, physics, alchemy and the extraordinary things that can happen when two brilliant minds meet. It is a bromance, sometimes deep, sometimes moving and sometimes even hilarious, and a play about how a meeting of the minds can change the world.
The Private Lives of AIs
Join Arthur I. Miller, Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at University College London, online Wednesday, Sept. 25 from noon to 1 p.m. for Creative Machines that Write Prose and Produce Art: What Makes Them Tick? hosted by the Georgia Tech Library and moderated by Media Artist-In-Residence Bojana Ginn. In this online […]
At the 56th Session of the International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies.
Invited to participate in the workshop, Art, Visual Illusions, and Data Visualization at Dagstuhl Seminar 24301.
I will also present a talk – AI Art: A subject with an inspiring past, an exciting present and a breathtaking future.
Bergamo Conference on The Conceptions of Nature Across the History of Science, Philosophy, Literature and Art.
The Book Behind It All: Book Signing
Arthur I Miller signs copies of his book ‘The Artist in the Machine’, which came out just before generative AI (eg, Chat GPT) started becoming commonplace.
The Machine Merger: Talk and Performance – AI, creativity and an optimistic future…?
Meet AI optimist and leading world thinker in the intersection of art and AI Arthur I Miller, local musician ilā who collaborates with AI, and our neuroscientist Tim Rittman who explores the use of AI in his neurological work. What is the difference between generative AI and collaborative AI? Is this moment akin to the first humans making fires? And how might we take any fear away? […]
Generative AI Creates Art and Literature: But is it the Real Thing?
Radical Creativity: Generative AI Creates Art and Literature
Excited to take part in the panel for the dynamic AI artist Dan Ambrosi at the R+V art gallery, 38 Dover Street, London.
Creative Machines: The Future is Now
Breaking Boundaries Between Art and Science. Creating a New Art/Science Institute
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Creative Machines: The Future is Now
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Ethical Matters: Art and Artificial Intelligence
Arthur I. Miller, author of The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity and Emeritus Professor History and Philosophy of Science, University College London, alongside Reema Selhi, Head of Policy and International at DACS, a not-for-profit visual artists’ rights management organisation.
This is the keynote lecture in the series “Synchronicity.”
A gripping dramatisation of the relationship between psychologist Carl Jung and brilliant physicist Wolfgang Pauli, during 1931 to 1957, and how it went from patient/analyst to colleagues, then close friends.
Sponsored by the Analytical Psychology Club of New York
Jung, Pauli and Synchronicity
At a key time in his scientific development, the physicist Wolfgang Pauli underwent analysis by Carl Jung. […]
I am on a panel to discuss a session on AI recorded earlier at an NIVIDIA-sponsored event made up of Turing Award winners including Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCunn and Yoshua Bengio.
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Machines that Make Art, Improvise Music and Write Film Scripts
The Brave New World of Creative Machines
From human-machine interaction to fully creative machines: What will this mean for the future of ‘humans’? […]
Can AI Be the Next Picasso?
AIs are already creating works that we recognize as art But does this make them truly artists? Can AIs possess the attributes of living beings even though they are alien life forms? If and when this is the case, their intelligence will no longer be ‘ but as real as ours In my talk I will focus on the exciting art, literature and music already being created by artificial neural networks and consider the key issue of whether machines can be creative like us.[…]
Human Psyche/Machine Psyche
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Machines that Make Art, Improvise Music and Write Film Scripts
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Organised by the British Council in Spain.
Machines That Make Art, Improvise Music and Write Film Scripts. Hosted by Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
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Online Lecture on the puntoSUR|TV platform which brings news, interviews, tech conference related to technology, business, innovation and leadership to the Latin American audience.
Online International Summer School 6-10 June 2021
What is aesthetics, and what value can the question of aesthetics have today? The school, organized by the University of Milan in collaboration with the European Seminar of Aesthetics – an international network of academics and researchers founded in 2014 with the aim of fostering critical debate on key topics in aesthetics – intends to address these and other questions concerning the relationship between aesthetics, art and technique. […]
In the spring of 2021, the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) and The Digital Hub, Dublin will present a programme of In-Public webinars to examine the affecting and transformative nature of emerging technologies relationship on the creative sector, and attending to creative practice, academic research and industry. This programme is curated by The […]
Arthur Miller wonders whether machines should first develop emotions, volition, and consciousness in order to be creative. One of the world’s most insightful thinkers about the intersection of art and science and The Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at University College London will discuss at the Athens Science Festival platform the critical issue of developing creativity through […]
Join physicist and author Arthur I. Miller (The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity, 2019), composer and media artist Doug Geers, artist and hacktivist Ricardo Dominguez, and MacArthur “Genius Award” winner and director of algorithmic theatre, Annie Dorsen, for a mind-bending session on the complex intersections of artists, machines, and the future of artistic experiences.
LunchBreak is a series of live, online interviews with artists, scientists, and creative technologists. Join us virtually on Zoom over your lunch break to hear from cross-disciplinary professionals all over the world.
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Expert in the history and philosophy of science Professor Arthur Miller explains how computers powered by artificial intelligence are creating art, literature and music that could be better than the work of humans. Miller says today’s computers can produce music that is ‘more Bach than Bach’, can turn photographs into a Van Gogh painting and write screenplays. But are computers truly creative or are they a tool for musicians, writers and artists? […]
The coronavirus strikes again. Very sadly – though not surprisingly – the Edinburgh Science Festival is no more. But you can still hear my thoughts on the great question of the day: Can computers be really creative?
The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Today’s computers are composing music that sounds “more Bach than Bach,” turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative—or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers?
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Today machines have already shown glimpses of creativity in art, literature and music. As AI develops, completely new forms of the arts, currently unimaginable, are bound to emerge. Arthur Miller is curator, professor and author, in his work he explores this beautiful new world. …
The Artist in the Machine
Join Arthur Miller as he explores the amazing new world of creative AI. With autonomous machines making everything from art and literature to music, could this change the way we think about art and creativity?
The lecture will be repeated at 20.30–21.00.
Arthur I. Miller in Conversation with Mauro Martino at MIT Press Bookstore
Discussing Miller’s latest book The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity at the MIT Press Bookstore.
Author Arthur I. Miller: “The Artist in the Machine”
The Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London discusses his book, which examines questions of creativity in the age of machines. Now that computers can compose music like Bach or turn photographs into paintings in these style of Van Gogh, Miller reviews the creative process and interviews people on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence to discuss whether computers are already as creative as humans and if one day they will surpass us.
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Sponsored by the Division of Humanities and the Arts, the Grove School of Engineering, the Division of Science, Harlem Gallery of Science and Science and Arts Engagement New York, Inc.
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Arthur I Miller, an authority on creativity takes us on a tour of the extraordinary world of machine creativity, introducing us to AI-powered computers that are creating art, literature and music that may well surpass the creations of humans. But, Miller writes, in order to be truly creative, machines will need to step into the world. […]
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
As AI develops, completely new forms of the arts – currently unimaginable – are bound to emerge; in our season of exploring AI and its uses, creativity and ethics our speaker – Prof Arthur I Miller – will explore this brave new world, probing questions such as: ‘Can and will computers be creators like us and even go beyond us? Will we have to rethink concepts like ‘art’ and ‘creativity’ and, if so, how?’ Prof Miller will discuss and debate all this and much, much more!
The Artist In The Machine
Today’s computers are composing music that sounds more Bach than Bach, turning photographs into paintings in the style of Van Gogh’s Starry Night and even writing screenplays. But are computers truly creative, or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, painters and writers to improve their art? Arthur I. Miller and Murray Shanahan take us on a tour of creativity and ask what it means to have original thought and consciousness in the age of machines. Chaired by Julia Wheeler.
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Are computers truly creative—or are they merely tools to be used by musicians, artists, and writers? Join Arthur I Miller who takes us on a tour of creativity in the age of machines and how they may one day surpass us.
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
Today machines have already shown glimpses of creativity in art, literature and music. As AI develops, completely new forms of the arts, currently unimaginable, are bound to emerge. I will explore this brave new world, probing questions like, Will computers be creators like us and even go beyond us? Will we have to rethink concepts like “art” and “creativity” and, if so, how? I will discuss all this and much, much more.
Main title photo credit: Latitude Festival