Oliver Bown will present at the Creative Industries & Artificial Intelligence Forum, part of the Future of Arts, Culture and Technology (FACT) Symposium, held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, on 13 February. For more details: www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fac...

📣We are pleased to announce that our team member Professor Christopher Haworth has been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant for ‘After Sampling Culture: Synthetic media as culture in twenty-first century music’ (SYNCULTURE).

We are delighted to announce that PI Georgina Born has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Lund University. The citation recognises her as “one of the world’s most influential and innovative researchers in contemporary musicology and sound studies”.

Assoc. Prof. Oliver Bown joins Anna Munster, Thomas Smith and Chloe McFadden from the Creative Technologies Research Lab for short talks at the MCA’s In Dialogue: Data Dreams event on Sat 22 Nov. Details: www.mca.com.au/events-progr...

Between November 4 to 6 2025, Owen Green and Georgina Born participated in a 3 day workshop led by team member @bobltsturm.bsky.social and held at KTH, with the aim of debating whether there is a need for a manifesto responding to the significant challenges posed by the application of AI to music.

Artemi Maria-Gioti and Rebecca Fiebrink will be speaking on a CMMR panel on AI, joined by Tommie Introna, next week on Tuesday, 5 November, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at UCL’s Pool Street Cinema. For more information about the panel please visit: cmmr2025.prism.cnrs.fr/ai-panel/

Associate Professor Oliver Bown and his collaborators have been awarded two Discovery Project Grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC).

Between October 27 and 28 2025, Georgina Born and @einbond.bsky.social Einbond participated in research workshops held at @ircam.bsky.social , Paris, under the direction of Carmine-Emanuele Cella on broad questions of music and AI, and on the future of the orchestra.

Rebecca Fiebrink will be speaking at the KIKK festival in Namur, Belgium next week on “Data as Dialogue: Beyond Ground Truth in Creative ML” Date: 24 October 2025 Time: 3.30-4.10 pm (WET) For more information and tickets: www.kikk.be/talk/rebecca... @rebeccafiebrink.bsky.social

Eric Drott gave a talk on October 3 at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, titled “Music and the Aesthetics of the Asset Form.”

On September 16, Eric Drott gave an invited talk at the RTF Media Colloquium series at the University of Texas, titled "Streaming, Sleep, and the Crises of Social Reproduction"

I'm running another iteration of my webinar "Adapting to AI in the Creative Industries". Online, Friday 17th October 2025. 10am-1pm (AEST - Sydney). Cost $50 (AUD). Register here www.eventbrite.com.au/e/adapting-t...

Oliver Bown, together with Sue Keay, Director of the UNSW AI Institute, contributed a submission to Australia’s Economic Roundtable, arguing that loosening copyright protections is not necessary to foster innovation.

Between Nov 14-18, Christopher Haworth is joining Audio Ghosts as a guest artist. Audio Ghosts is a research project exploring how ‘artistic interpretation of auditory illusions can contribute to both the artistic and scientific understanding of sound installation art’.

Read @olliebown.bsky.social ‘s new essay ‘Predicting Culture‘ published in Mosaic on 29 July 2025. This essay focuses on AI’s growing influence on creativity and cultural production, and the need for human-centred strategies to ensure equitable cultural futures. mosaic.uoc.edu/2025/07/29/p...

On 25 May, Artemi-Maria Gioti was invited to give a talk titled ‘Ethnography of a Data-making Practice’ at Zukunftstage II, held at Anton Bruckner University in Linz. www.bruckneruni.ac.at/de/forschung...

On 10 July @rebeccafiebrink.bsky.social gave a keynote at @xcoax.org 2025 (13th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X) titled ‘Thinking Differently About “Data” in Creative and Interactive Machine Learning’ in Creative and Interactive Machine Learning.’

📢Call for papers📢 MusAI researcher Christopher Haworth is on the scientific committee of the International Conference "Music and Machines". Proposal deadline: June 30, 2025 For full details and submission guidelines, please visit: www.journal.chigiana.org/call-chigian...

🛠️ Workshop: “Adapting to AI in the Creative Industries” with @olliebown.bsky.social Part of the Inner West Creative Toolbox symposium, this workshop unpacks how creatives can navigate and adapt to emerging AI tools. 🔗 web.cvent.com/event/dc7e55... #CreativeTech #AIWorkshop #InnerWestCouncil

🎤 Oliver Bown at Marrickville Library — “Art & AI: Where’s It Going?” Join @olliebown.bsky.social for a public lecture exploring where AI is taking us in the creative world. 🗓️ 26 June, 6:30 pm 📍 Marrickville Library 🔗 Register: www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/explore/what... #ArtAndAI #InnerWest

SPARC starts today! Check out the schedule full of free workshops and concerts. Don’t forget to register 🎶

📢Call for papers📢 MusAI researcher Christopher Haworth is on the scientific committee of the International Conference "Music and Machines". Proposal deadline: June 30, 2025 For full details and submission guidelines, please visit: www.journal.chigiana.org/call-chigian...

🥁Next week!🥁 Join SPARC 2025 @sparclondon.bsky.social , curated by a MusAI researcher, @einbond.bsky.social as part of City St George's. Register for events separately from the schedule below: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... Photo credit: Claudia Molitor and the 'Rewilding Music’ project

📢Call for submissions 📢 MusAI researcher Christopher Haworth and Erik Nyström are co-editing a special issue of the computer music journal on "New Perspectives on Models for Critical and Creative Sound Practice". ❗Deadline: 12 January 2026 www.academia.edu/129567247/Ca...

On June 4th at 7 PM, Aaron Einbond will be featured in the SPARC Symposium 2025 at City St George’s, University of London. The concert will include his piece Prestidigitation, created with the support of the MusAI project. For full programme and tickets: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Today, PI Georgina Born (IAS and Anthropology, UCL) will be doing a discussion of interdisciplinarity with Andrew Barry, named ‘AI, Environment, Art’ at UCL, which will touch upon the works of MusAI. 📆: 20 May 5-6pm 📍: Common Ground, IAS, UCL and online 🎟️: www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...

As part of our ongoing commitment to open platforms and digital research, MusAI Project is moving its primary social media presence from Twitter to Bluesky. We are excited to share news and events related to our project. For more information, please visit: musicairesearch.wordpress.com