ITI participates in the EIT Culture & Creativity “Beyond Competitiveness Partner Conference”

Professor Nuno Jardim Nunes, President of LARSyS and a researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI), participated in the “Beyond Competitiveness Partner Conference” organised by EIT Culture & Creativity at UPTEC, Universidade do Porto.

The event brought together European partners from academia, industry, and the cultural sector to discuss how creativity, innovation, and technology can contribute to shaping the next phase of Europe’s creative economy.

Prof. Nunes joined the panel “Artistic and Artificial Intelligence: Generating and Appropriating Knowledge in Shaping Desirable Futures”. In his intervention, he talked about how generative AI is emerging as an epistemic technology, supporting creative production while also actively generating new forms of knowledge. He highlighted how artists, as problem-makers, can challenge the “enchanted determinism” of opaque AI systems and turn them into spaces of critical inquiry and imaginative experimentation.

📸 Photos from the conference are included below.
Credits: EIT Culture & Creativity partner conference Beyond Competitiveness @ Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal 2025.11.07 © André Henriques — IG @ahphoto_gigs