The next speaker takes our Introducing the Speakers series in a musical direction. Marcin Strzelecki is a lecturer, composer, programmer, researcher of music culture and a music critic. He teaches at the Music Academy in Krakow and is also the author of traditional compositions as well as multimedia installations, music-generating algorithms and conceptual works.
His recent obsession is the influence of various types of factors on human creativity, from the evolutionary and genetic to the neural, psychological, environmental, cultural – and technological. Marcin’s research interests cover the cognitive psychology of hearing, cybernetics, musical stylometry and more recently, the evolutionary psychology of music, anthropology and neuropsychology.
At this year’s TEDxKraków, Marcin will address such questions as: In the light of current experiments in artificial intelligence, will we have to re-define concepts such as inspiration, illumination or artisanal? If breaking the rules is an essential element of art, is it possible – or will it ever be possible – to teach machines to do the same? It’s nothing new to say that science and technology change our environment in a dramatic way. A more important question is whether, and in what way, they change us as people; our ideas, dreams, values and ways of thinking about the world. Are these changes permanent?
What do you think?