Meeting & Seminars

International Symposium: AI Imaginaries: Authorship, Creativity, and Authenticity

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Organised by: Education Department, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Principal Corporate Supporter: Thai Beverage Public Company Limited
Education Program Supporter: The Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Limited

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International Symposium:
AI Imaginaries: Authorship, Creativity, and Authenticity 
Saturday 28 March 2026 , 10.00 – 18.00 hrs.
Multi-function Room, 1st floor, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

Program curated by Professor Dr. Peter Mantello

Bangkok Art and Culture Centre  presents the International Symposium AI Imaginaries: Authorship, Creativity, and Authenticity, inviting the public to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping art, creativity, and everyday life. As AI increasingly generates images, texts, and voices, familiar ideas of authorship, originality, and authenticity are beginning to shift. AI is no longer only a  technical tool, It has become an active agent in cultural production,  influencing how stories are told, how images are made, and how meaning is created. The symposium asks what it means to create in a moment when humans and machines collaborate in new and complex ways.

Bringing together leading AI artists from China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United States, the programme highlights perspectives shaped by diverse histories, cultural and social contexts. By centering Asian voices, AI Imaginaries challenges the idea that AI has a single, universal future and instead opens space for multiple ways of imagining technology and creativity. Curated by filmmaker, artist, and AI theorist Professor Dr. Peter Mantello, the symposium positions art as a vital public space for thinking through  technological change. AI Imaginaries invites audiences not only to observe AI’s growing presence in culture, but to engage with it thoughtfully, critically, and imaginatively. Open to the general public, the symposium welcomes artists, students, and anyone curious about how technology is reshaping creative life today.

Panel Discussion I “Generative AI – Image and Narrative AI Tools”
Since its birth, filmmaking has occupied a contentious space between documentation and creation. With the advent of Generative AI, this uneasy space expands, disrupting normative assumptions of photographic truth, authenticity, and authorship. The artists in this panel examine AI-generated filmmaking practices (both documentary and fiction) as a site where intention, execution, and agency become intertwined.

Panelists: 
Bianca Tse (Hong Kong)
Chuimui Tan (Malaysia)
Jayson Moyer (USA)

Panel Discussion II “Cyborg Futures – Human–Machine Relations”
The second panel shifts focus from images to artists who are confronting the promise and perils of emerging human-machine relationships.  As AI steers our perception, trains our emotion, and scaffolds our decision-making processes, distinctions between tool and user, interface and agent, orchestration and autonomy increasingly blur.

Panelists: 
niceaunties (Singapore)
Henry Tan (Thailand)
Kawita Vatanajyankur (Thailand)

Panel Discussion III “AI Horizons”
The third panel explores how AI art creation is not just about depicting the present but prototyping possible futures. The artists in this panel turn computational processes into immersive aesthetic events pointing toward futures where socio-technical imaginaries will take center stage in shaping the digital cultures of contemporary societies.

Panelists:
Naoka Tosa & Ryohei Nakatsu (Japan)
Nolan Chan (China)
Shavonne Wong (Singapore)

Watch the full recording at:
Part 1/3: https://youtu.be/ob7MO-UdUac
Part 2/3: https://youtu.be/O-v-US2PYqY
Part 3/3: https://youtu.be/iP5z86RAHSw

Agenda:

– English with Thai Translation
– Free admission & Registration required

Registration via Google Forms: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBILktVCIMR5Vn_z7dmaiVDg8qrV59tRJYoyuWpc9hIfdM4A/viewform?usp=publish-editor

For more Information, please contact:
Education Department, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
Tel: +66 (0) 2 214 6630-8 ext. 519
Email: [email protected]