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Building Platform Technologies for Symbiotic Creativity in Hong Kong Building Platform Technologies for Symbiotic Creativity in Hong Kong

Building Platform Technologies for Symbiotic Creativity in Hong Kong

A pioneering research project with HK$52.8 million granted

A groundbreaking 5-year project aiming to develop a creative Art Tech platform and provide unlimited art content for humans to usher in a new era of Art Tech. With HK$52.8 million research funding from the Research Grants Council in 2021, the multidisciplinary research team is working together for several initiatives including an art data repository, an Al creative algorithm system, a research theatre, a digital art and policy network, and some unique and creative applications.

Under this project, applications in three domain areas will be launched:

01/ the Super AI artist
the world’s first “Combined Music and Art Biennale”, which will host multidisciplinary musical works and artworks jointly created by humans and AI;

02/ Shared Mind and Empathetic AI
a concert series featuring a three-way collaboration between performers, the audience and machines; and

03/ Symbiotic Opera
a new form of opera that integrates with immersive XR technology, and it will be jointly created by humans and machines in an immersive virtual world.

The project is global and multidisciplinary, featuring artists, AI and Data scientists, media scientists, cognitive scientists, and ethics and art policy scholars from HKBU, Yale University, Cambridge University, City University of Hong Kong, Norwich University of the Arts, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, The University of Hong Kong, University of Kent, SenseTime Group Ltd, and Imperial College London.

Project Team
  • Professor Johnny Poon, Associate Vice-President (Interdisciplinary Research), Dean of the School of Creative Arts, Chair Professor in Creative Arts, Dr. Hung Hin Shiu Endowed Professor in Music
  • Professor Yike Guo, Former Vice President (Research and Development)
  • Professor Xu Jianliang, Head & Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science
  • Professor Jeffrey Shaw, Chair Professor, Academy of Visual Arts
  • Professor Chen Jie, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
  • Professor Eugene Alexander Birman, Associate Director (Internationalisation) and Associate Professor, Academy of Music
  • Professor Zhou Chang Song, Head and Professor, Department of Physics
  • Professor Chen Li, Associate Head (Research) and Professor, Department of Computer Science, Professor (Affiliate), Department of Social Work
  • Professor Kingsley Ng, Associate Professor, Academy of Visual Arts, Programme Director of BASc (Hons) in Arts and Technology


and other researchers

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