THEME A: AI and Creative Labour, Rights, and Compensation
* Charlottetown, Tues 2 June, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. (Charlottetown Library Learning Centre)
* Summerside, Tues 9 June, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. (Summerside Rotary Library)
What threats and opportunities do you observe related to AI and training data, copyright, consent, fair compensation, attribution, extraction, and creative workers’ bargaining power? What are the specific implications for consent of Indigenous communities, collective rights, and cultural ownership?
Who might be interested:
- Writers (authors, journalists, screenwriters, poets)
- Composers, songwriters, recording artists
- Visual artists, illustrators, photographers
- Storytellers, cultural knowledge-keepers, and creators using traditional knowledge in their arts practice
- Videogame narrative designers and concept artists
- Film or TV screenwriters, editors
- Other creative workers who create IP that could be scraped, replicated, or devalued by generative AI
- Other creative workers who are already encountering rights conflicts due to AI
THEME B: AI as a Creative Collaborator - Or Not
* Charlottetown, Thurs 4 June, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. (Charlottetown Library Learning Centre)
How is AI actually being used (or rejected!) in creative practice. How in your observation does it affect tools, hybrid workflows, authorship, and artistic identity? How do artists avoid cultural appropriation at scale through AI tools?
Who might be interested:
- Game developers (designers, technical artists, indie studios)
- Film/video creators (editors, VFX, animators)
- Digital visual artists and new media practitioners
- Music producers and sound designers
- Arts educators (especially digital/media)
- Indigenous artists and artists whose work engages with Indigenous content
- Other creative workers who are already already integrating AI into workflows – or actively deciding not to
THEME C: Access and Inclusion and AI in the Arts and Culture Sector
* Charlottetown, Fri 5 June, 11:30-1:30 (check with CreativePEI office)
Who do you observe benefiting from AI, who is excluded, and what supports or policies are needed, especially for equity-deserving groups, as a result of emerging AI? How do AI risks balance with assistive potential, collaboration potential, or potential for language revitalization and access? What could digital sovereignty and equitable futures look like?
Who might be interested:
- Artists with disabilities and neurodivergent artists
- Emerging artists and students
- Rural and regionally isolated creators
- 2SLGBTQIA+ and gender-diverse artists
- Arts administrators, producers, and service organization staff
- Community-based cultural organizations
- Other creative workers with lived experience of systemic/structural barriers, precarity, and unequal access to supports
- Other creative workers who experience AI through both risks and potentials
THEME D: AI and Cultural Gatekeeping
* Virtual, Fri 12 June, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (link to be provided to registrants)
How in your observation, does AI shape what gets seen, recommended, funded, archived, or remembered? Who controls metadata, description, and context? What are the risks of AI reproducing colonial archives and biases?
Who might be interested:
- Librarians, archivists, museum professionals
- Curators, programmers, festival organizers
- Publishers and editors
- Knowledge-keepers
- Arts service organizations
- Grant-makers and funders
- Cultural journalists
- Creative workers experiencing AI through professional roles