Hosted in collaboration with Kiaf Seoul, Korea Arts Management Service(KAMS), and Frieze Seoul, the annual talk series will address pressing issues in the international art world today.

Talk Overview
[Topic] Questioning Creativity: Art and the New Frontier
[Date & Time] September 6, 2025, 14:00–15:00
[Moderator] Iain Robertson (Professor, Hongik University)

Panelists:
Jinjoon Lee (Artist (AI art)), Professor at KAIST)
Alfredo Cramerotti (Director, mm:museum at Northwestern Qatar)
Hyojeong Seo (Artist (generative art))

Session Description:
New creative technologies are having a profound effect on our life and work. The great question is, will it replace human activity and creativity or enhance it?  Will humans become, essentially, redundant?
 In art, inspiration is complex and hard to explain, but there is a fear that algorithms will mimic and substitute imagination and the artistic process.
This may lead to the homogenisation of art. There is an alternative view that, rather like photography, these technologies will become another aspect of art, another sector of the art market.
Today, these central issues will form the basis for discussion, along with the important concerns that relate to copyright and protection, pricing and economics and the artwork itself. 

Selected Questions for panels:
- Is it possible to copyright works generated by new technologies when there is no direct human involvement?
- Can generative systems be spontaneous and open to chance?
- Are these technologies, like oil paint or photography, gradually becoming part of the artworld—or are they something more transformative?
- How does the participatory nature of these technologies—where viewers, collectors, artists, and curators share virtual spaces—affect how we create and consume art?
- What is the likely impact of generative technologies on human creativity? What happens if they become indistinguishable from human-made creation?