Local research workshops with academic and industry partners across Canada, Brazil, the Netherlands, Japan and India.
This two-day workshop, held at the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP), brings into focus how generative AI is reshaping the way cultural content is imagined, produced and circulated in a conversation between the creators, agencies and researchers in Brazil who are working with these technologies right now.
A closed and invitation-only hands-on session (in Portuguese) bringing together creators, agencies and civil society organisations from the Brazilian content creation ecosystem. The day is built around collaborative mapping: participants trace where generative AI sits in the content production workflow and debate where it helps, where it does not belong, and the ethical tensions it raises for creative labour.
An open academic day (in English, with online transmission) gathering researchers and research groups working on generative AI and cultural production in Brazil. The day is devoted to collectively mapping a research agenda, drawing together theoretical, epistemological, empirical and policy perspectives to build a shared picture of where the field is heading.
The International Symposium on Gen AI and Cultural Production brings together leading practitioners, researchers, writers, filmmakers, producers, platform professionals, and creative technologists to examine how generative AI is reshaping cultural production.
The symposium focuses on the rapidly changing relationship between GenAI, creative labour, authorship, production practices, industry structures, rights, and cultural value. Across two days of keynote conversations, panels, and workshops, participants will explore how generative technologies are being adopted across film, television, streaming, digital media, and emerging screen formats, while also considering their implications for writers, filmmakers, producers, audiences, and creative institutions.
The programme will address questions around AI-assisted screenwriting and filmmaking, AI-first storytelling, creative workflows, platform and content strategy, copyright and writers’ rights, gender and inclusion, audience engagement, production cultures, and the changing conditions of creative work.
Together the speakers bring expertise spanning screenwriting, filmmaking, television and streaming, creative producing, AI enabled production, speculative storytelling, platform strategy, audience development, creative labour, copyright, and the cultural adoption of generative AI. The symposium is intended for academics, researchers, filmmakers, writers, producers, media professionals, creative technologists, students, and others interested in the future of cultural production in an AI mediated media environment.