Open AccessAutomating Creativity
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
screenworks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2514-3123
DOI - 10.37186/swrks/10.1/2
Subject(s) - creativity , automation , narrative , field (mathematics) , statement (logic) , creativity technique , relation (database) , sociology , key (lock) , point (geometry) , computer science , epistemology , engineering , psychology , literature , art , social psychology , computer security , mechanical engineering , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , database , pure mathematics
Sy Taffel’s thought-provoking documentary Automating Creativity explores how workers in the creative industries and academics who study technology and culture understand the existing and emerging relationships between automation and creativity, and how these relationships inform contemporary communication, media and culture. Taking the recent surge of interest in digital automation as his starting point, Taffel constructs a pointed overview of these computational tools in relation to creative practices through interviews with key figures in the field, archive material and voice over narration. His accompanying statement examines the political implications of digital automation and reflects on his own use of automated tools during the production of the documentary soundtrack.