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- Convenor:
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Maria Engberg
(Malmö University)
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- Format:
- Traditional Open Panel
Short Abstract
How do creative professionals embody AI-transformed work? Beyond adoption/resistance binaries, this panel examines friction, irritation, joy, and ambivalence in GenAI use, revealing how resilient professional futures are constructed, not just imagined, through affectively charged, embodied practice.
Description
How does it feel to work and create with generative AI-tools? What is changing in individuals’ perception of professional identities, skills, and their day-to-day work experiences? Generative AI (GenAI) chatbots and GenAI-infused digital tools, already deeply embedded into digital work processes, impact creative practices across design, writing, drawing, programming, artistic practices, and beyond. Inspired by Minna Ruckenstein’s The Feel of Algorithms (2023) and the call to “capture the joys, concerns, and troubles that are personally felt” (p.15) in algorithmic cultures, this panel seeks contributions that explore how individuals navigate and feel about having to or choosing to work with GenAI. We focus on three tensions that professionals embody and navigate: 1. the friction between situated craft knowledge and algorithmic generation; 2. what happens in hands and eyes and heads when GenAI extends, shifts and challenges their expertise; and 3. the reconfiguration of professional boundaries—the machine-human co-creation, the sensory and affective shift from making to prompting and curating, or the work that is partially steered by algorithmic collaborators that demand time-consuming contextualised judgment and evaluation.
We seek papers that will contribute to theoretical and empirical engagements with questions such as: how does attending to felt experience—the sensory shifts and the distributed agency—reveal conditions for more humane sociotechnical configurations? And, what futures are creative professionals already constructing through their embodied engagement with GenAI? By centering our panel on feelings, affect, and embodiment, we build on STS scholarship on the transformations of professional expertise in automated and algorithmic infrastructures and open conceptual space for understanding how resilient futures are not imagined abstractly but built through the textured, embodied work of living and working with GenAI in the present.