FUTURE MANIFESTOS – Konferanse
DIGS, Krambugata 2 / 10. & 11. APRIL, 10:00 – 14:30
Gratis inngang.
Kurator: Zane Cerpina
Creativity Between Art and Science
The talk will be in two parts.
First, I will present MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity, a new Norwegian research centre advancing AI to explore and shape human-machine creativity. Funded by the Research Council of Norway in 2025, the centre brings together artists, engineers, and scholars across disciplines to create, explore, and reflect on AI systems that augment creative practice while foregrounding agency, inclusion, and sustainability. Organized into seven work packages, the centre addresses technical challenges such as real-time multi-agent systems and hybrid symbolic learning methods, societal concerns including bias, copyright, and equitable value distribution, and applied domains spanning health, education, cultural heritage, and the creative industries.
Second, I will present some of my own ongoing explorations into embodied AI, including inverse control, small language models, and distributed computing. This approach challenges current monolithic, generative models, suggesting an alternative future for creative AI.
Alexander Refsum Jensenius [NO]
Alexander Refsum Jensenius is a music researcher and research musician whose work blurs science and art. As Professor of Music Technology at the University of Oslo, he directs the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion and the fourMs Lab, and leads the new, national MishMash Centre for AI and Creativity, bringing together artists, technologists, and researchers. Jensenius creates research-driven performances and installations that foreground bodily movement, micromotion, and the sonic life of everyday environments. His playful yet rigorous practice has produced projects that earned him the nicknames “Dr. Air Guitar” and “Professor Standstill,” and ranges from motion-capture instruments to investigations of indoor acoustics and ventilation as sound sources. He is widely published and has presented at major music technology and psychology conferences; notable publications include the monograph Sound Actions and the anthologies Sonic Design and A NIME Reader.
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Portrait photo by Annica Thomsson/UiO. Photo representing the talk by Mona Hauglid.
