CfP: Workshop on Creativity & Artificial Intelligence

Call for Participation
Workshop on Creativity and Artificial Intelligence

Hobart and William Smith Colleges
March 28, 2026

Keynote Speaker: Richard Jean So, Duke University

The Global Digital Humanities Working Group of Central New York Humanities Corridor is pleased to host a 1-day workshop on creativity and artificial intelligence at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on March 28, 2026.

This workshop responds to recent calls in digital media scholarship to examine generative AI as a technology and cultural practice. Despite the known racial, gender, linguistic, and geographical biases in AI’s datasets as well as its widely acknowledged extractive labor and environmental impacts, fictional writers, visual artists, translators, game designers, and filmmakers are exploring ways of integrating AI into their creative processes.

Our workshop asks members of the corridor and its affiliated network to share how they are thinking about the critical alongside the collaborative in their teaching, research, and creative endeavors. What would the ethics of creative AI use look like? How does AI impact the professionalization of the creative class and the notion of agency, authority, and (co-)creation?

We invite contributions that address this theme in the forms of, but not limited to, working papers, syllabi, art projects, teaching modules, and best practice policies for ethical AI use. We encourage participants to interpret the theme imaginatively, and to bring diverse methodological, theoretical, and creative approaches to bear on the topic of the workshop.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• AI and the Body
• AI in Game Design and Interactive Media
• AI in Film and Media production
• AI and Authorship
• AI and Professionalization
• AI and Resistance
• AI and Affect
• AI and Translation
• AI and Data Visualization
• AI and Linguistics
• Algorithmic Decision Making
• Automation and Labor
• Computational Creativity
• Creative Data
• Ethical frameworks for AI use in creative fields
• Histories of AI in creative fields
• LLMs and Writing
• Potential consequences of AI for humanities teaching and research methodologies

Intra-Corridor Travel supplemental funds are available to Corridor faculty, academic staff, and graduate students.

We also welcome participation from non-CNY Humanities Corridor members.

Please submit workshop presentation abstract of up to 300 words to: CreativityandAI@gmail.com

Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2026

For any questions or further information, please contact: Iskandar Zulkarnain: zulkarnain@hws.edu