(Co-)Creator, Creativity and the Created.
GoNeDigiTal Annual Conference, 3-5 June 2025
This conference, seeks to create a space for conversations that cover an array of topics related to creativity, theology, and digital technology and culture. Approached from a number of theological and disciplinary vantage points, we explore topics such as the relation between the divine and the created, the nature and limits of creativity, where beauty can be found in digital culture, how AI changes our notions of creativity, what technological creation tells us about createdness, and more.
We welcome paper proposals addressing topics such as:
- The possibilities and limits of creativity in digital culture
- The creative communication of the gospel/theology in digital culture
- The relationship between the created and God
- Human self-understanding, creativity and technology
- Creativity by machines
- Artistic expressions in digital culture
- Unbiasing creative future
- Creativity, responsibility and ethics
- God’s creativity versus that of humans and that of AI
- Anthropocentric creative bias
- Ecotheological implications of digital creativity
- Human Centred AI design and sustainable creation
- Uncreating – what are we undoing by pursuing AI
- Real and actual AI and the potential of AI
- Creativity, technology, sin and evil
- Technological embodiment of Christian virtues
- Liberative theologies of creativity and technology
- Imagination, creativity and Sci-Fi (Or: Imagination, Sci-Fi, and the human story)
- AI creativity and intellectual property rights
- A New Earth: human and divine visions of the future
- Is AI ‘artificial?’ Delineating artifice and nature in digital technology
- Techno-theodicy: the theological role of errors, accidents, and black boxes
- Digital technologies, creativity and theological education
Please submit your abstract (max 300 words) to info [at] gonedigital [dot] media by 31 January 2025.
Please note that all papers will be presented online. There will however be an opportunity to gather locally at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Chicago. The workshop will take place 5-7 June 2025 in Chicago at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary sponsored by the Stead Center on Ethics and Values. Please find the CfP and more information on: https://www.theologies-of-the-digital.org/
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