Creativity Squared

What will be the art form of the 21st century?  Sergiu Ardelean is a serial entrepreneur from Austria with a passion for pushing boundaries. He’s the CEO and Co-Founder Artivive which is a startup venture founded in 2017 that fuses haptic and digital art with the captivating power of augmented reality. Artivive is the AR solution for artists and has the vision is to change how art is created and c...

Do you trust how your data is being handled in this era of A.I.? Rob Richardson is the CEO and Founder of Disrupt Art and the Founder of Disruption Now Media, a platform that includes MidwestCon where Rob heads programming and the Disruption Now Podcast which Rob hosts. Rob has appeared on MSNBC, America this Week, and is a regular contributor to Roland Martin Unfiltered. Disrupt Art helps brands...

Do machines think?  Find out in today’s episode with Ksenia Se, the Founder of the Turing Post newsletter. Over 20 years of her career, Ksenia has donned many hats: from New York Chief Editor of a global media platform to fintech executive to PR Director at Moscow's first Contemporary Art Center to Journalist, and even to a Llama Walker. Regardless of her role, her passion for technology has alway...

“Art expresses and distills aspects of the artist’s consciousness in a durable form that remains accessible even after the artist is gone. A work of art is, therefore, in some sense, 'un essai d’immortalité' — an attempt at immortality.” -Jason Schneider  Jason Schneider is a true modern-day Renaissance man with passions that include photography, motorcycles, poetry, music, and philosophy. A self-...

From the world capital of music, today’s guest is Walter Werzowa, an internationally acclaimed Austrian composer, producer, speaker, and professor at mdw - the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. With over 30 years of experience in the music industry, Walter is a passionate and visionary leader in audio branding and A.I. music. His mission is to explore and advance the intersection of...

Karen Palmer is the Storyteller from the Future. She’s an award-winning international artist and TED Speaker who is at the forefront of immersive storytelling, futurism, and tech.  She creates immersive film experiences that watch you back using artificial intelligence and facial recognition. Karen has been the opening keynote speaker at AT&T Shape Conference, MIT, Wired for Wonder Festival Austra...

How do you stay ahead of the law when it comes to generative A.I.? Discover in today’s episode! Join Derrick L. Maultsby Jr., a Senior Associate Attorney at Frost Brown Todd who focuses on artificial intelligence, digital assets, and web3. Derrick has spoken at the intersection of law and technology at conferences and universities across the country and was named "Trailblazer in the Law" by the Am...

“I am healing because I want to breathe unapologetically. I am healing because I need to embrace love again. I am healing because I deserve to be loved.” - Desirae “The Silent Poet” Hosley, ArtsWave “Truth & Healing” Artist Creativity Squared is proud to support and partner with ArtsWave and to bring you this special three-part series featuring the phenomenal artists and grant recipients selected...

Do people trust A.I.-created hyper-realistic avatars? Discover what the data reveals in the first study of its kind!  Soon to-be Dr. Jill Schiefelbein is the Chief Experience Officer and a Partner at Render, a Creativity Squared partner and sponsor that’s a start-up specializing in creating hyper-realistic avatars, including mine. Jill is also a leading researcher on these types of photo-realistic...

Is A.I. just part of a hype cycle?  Hear from SXSW’s Hugh Forrest who serves as Co-President and Chief Programming Officer for South by Southwest which includes SXSW Interactive, one of the largest tech conferences in the world helping creative people achieve their goals.  Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, SXSW is best known for its conference and festivals. Hugh oversees all of the content, celeb...

Creativity Squared is proud to support and partner with ArtsWave and to bring you this special three-part series, released every three weeks, featuring the phenomenal artists and grant recipients selected for this year’s ArtsWave Black and Brown Artists Program. These episodes include vignettes of our interviews that took place during the third annual showcase of ArtsWave's Black and Brown Artist...

A.I., the writers’ strike, and a crisis of imagination — Sara Horowitz, a lifelong mutualist, shares how we can build the future we want with mutualism.  Sara is the founder of the Freelancers Union and the Freelancers Insurance Company. A labor lawyer, former chair of the board of the New York Federal Reserve, and recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Sara has been featured on NPR, and in The Ne...

Ever wanted to clone yourself? Now you can! Enter A.I.-created synthetic media beyond deepfakes.  In this special episode of Creativity Squared, you’ll meet Helen 2.ODD, our host Helen Todd’s custom synthetic avatar, and learn how "she" was made. You read that right — Helen digitally cloned herself! And now there are two of her: the human Helen and her digital double Helen 2.ODD.  It’s important t...

Creativity Squared is proud to support and partner with ArtsWave and to bring you this special three-part series, released every three weeks, featuring the phenomenal artists and grant recipients selected for this year’s ArtsWave Black and Brown Artists Program. These episodes include vignettes of our interviews that took place during the third annual showcase of ArtsWave's Black and Brown Artist...

Zach Evans helped found and is the head of Harmonai, a Stability AI research lab and online community. Stability AI is the world’s leading open source artificial intelligence company. As an integral part of Stability AI, Harmonai is dedicated to creating open-source generative audio models and pushing forward creative uses of generative A.I. in music production.  Harmonai is by artists and for art...

Who owns the truth? Navigate A.I. and the endless worlds of manufactured realities and their impact on our understanding of truth in this episode’s fascinating conversation with Gerfried Stocker. Gerfried is a media artist and an engineer for communication technology and has been Artistic Director and co-CEO of Ars Electronica since 1995. Ars Electronica was established in 1979 and for over 40 yea...

Will A.I. kill photography? A.I.-generated images are reshaping politics, international relations, journalism, and beauty standards. But what about the impact on professional photographers?  For German photographer Thomas Boenig, photography is a force that fuels his existence. Based in Nuremberg, Germany, Thomas is a freelance commercial and Leica street photographer. His clients range from Adida...

Discover how art can bridge cultural divides with our guest, Janice Liebenberg, Vice President of Equitable Arts Advancement at ArtsWave. ArtsWave is a non-profit with the first and largest community arts campaign in the country. You’ll learn why Creativity Squared is a proud partner of the amazing work they do supporting over 150 arts organizations, projects, and independent artists.  Janice join...

In this episode of Creativity Squared, Eric Solomon joins us to discuss how language shapes our reality, his approach to the human operating system, the promise and pitfalls of A.I., the importance of intentionality, and how we need to remember that machines are not human and we need to embrace human-to-human connection now more than ever. Eric has worked at the intersection of psychology, brand-b...

Building trust online and establishing authenticity, transparency, and ethical A.I. is a big task — and it’s one that Andy Parsons, the Senior Director of Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), is tackling head-on. In this episode of Creativity Squared, Andy discusses the need for a future of verifiably authentic content of all kinds to combat disinformation. With collaborators across hard...

Advertising Creative Director Phil Gable joins Creativity Squared for a laugh-out-loud, mostly PG-13 conversation that touches on the current state of the advertising industry, the dangers of censoring A.I., and examples of his absurd A.I.-created content. Spoiler: ChatGPT had a hard time nailing down a conversation between Alice Cooper and Jay Leno in iambic pentameter about wood!  Phil has been...

Have you ever wished you had a duplicate version of yourself? If the answer is yes, this episode with Jon Tota is for you! Jon has spent his 25-year career at the forefront of all aspects of online digital media, including what we’ll be discussing on today’s episode which are photo realistic digital replicas of people using A.I. These are also known as digital doubles or twins, synthetic avatars,...

Joanna Peña-Bickley is an inventor and a design technologist known as the mother of Cognitive Experience Design. Named one of Fortune's Most Powerful Women, she’s been at the forefront of A.I. aided generative design, and has created her own framework with principles to ensure that A.I. enhances humans. Born a dyslexic child in San Antonio, TX, a thread throughout Joanna’s unlikely career is craft...

––– On Realizing the Potential of Our Humanity  I support the writers on strike. It’s unacceptable that we live in a country where a company that made over $10B this quarter has writers, people who are indispensable to its industry, who are struggling to make ends meet. Where in 2021, the combined yearly pay for the top six Hollywood CEOs surpassed $770 million while pay for TV writers has fallen...

Chad Nelson is an award-winning creative director, technology strategist with over 25 years of expertise, and creative collaborator with OpenAI. He shared all things DALL·E including CRITTERZ, the first animated short film that is 100% designed using A.I.-generated visuals. He also gave us a sneak peek at his A.I. work that’s on the cover of Vogue Italia’s May 2023 edition with cover model Bella H...