The development of so-called artificial intelligence, the refinement of its outputs, and the expansion of its possible applications are all progressing at a breathtaking pace. Literature and visual art are by no means exempt from this trend—on the contrary, these traditional domains of human creativity were among the first in which contemporary AI was applied and tested. What forms does the relationship between art, literature, and AI take today? What is the nature of creativity that combines human and machine capabilities? And how is our perception of literary and visual works changing in the context of omnipresent synthetic images and texts? These are just some of the questions that will be addressed in the presentations and discussions featuring internationally recognized experts as well as specialists from the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Presentations of students from Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava will uncover the process of using AI in the generation of poetic texts for GenGen exhibition. The GenGen exhibition employs diverse technologies and media in order to confront the poetry generation software with various approaches and methods of contemporary visual art. One of the works, PoetPet—which you can even jump around with—was created by Marty Müller, Natália Barnová, and Jakub Cingeľ. The rap-battle project Magické doupě will be presented by the authorial team of Kristína Matisová, Olívia Jánošíková, and Marco Fíšan. Vira Chernomorets will present her multilingual piece on loss in translation, Your tongue is not my language. These works will be connected to the project Generating Czech Poetry in Educational and Multimedia Environments (a TAČR-funded grant carried out at ÚFAL, ÚČL of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava), which is developing a system for generating poetic texts applicable in the teaching of poetry history.