PhD InFormation

After successfully defending my PhD in Philosophy on AI and Creativity, I am now a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Princeton University in Engineering.

My PhD in philosophy on AI and Co-Creativity at the Humboldt University Berlin and Princeton University PU Princeton-Humboldt Exchange Program

My PhD dissertation explores how our concept of creativity has to be rethought in light of the increasing role of technology in creative practice, thereby enriching the concept to include collective creativity produced by humans and AI. Collective creativity arises from the collective practices of people in relation to their nature, environment, cultures, societies, techniques, technologies, and AI. This conception of collective creativity challenges the traditional idea of the individual genius. By expanding our concept of creativity, we are able to acknowledge the processes and products of humans and AI as creative.

Working together with AI can enhance creativity because digital technologies can expand the capacities of human creativity. I illustrate this by taking case studies of co-creativity in art, music, text, and holograms in theater by drawing on my experience as a theater director and producer involved in collective creativity and as a philosopher trained in analytical thinking. Examples of co-created art includes DALL·E, co-created music includes AIVA, and co-created text includes ChatGPT. The most exciting recent examples of co-creativity occur in immersive theater experiences, which integrate multi-sensory performances.

My PhD dissertation is a multidisciplinary research project bringing together the approaches across the arts and humanities, social sciences, and computer engineering, that performs philosophical analysis integrating an immersive website illustrating the collective creativity of humans and AI.

Previously, I completed my MA in Philosophy at the Humboldt University Berlin HU, with an exchange year at the University of New South Wales in Sydney UNSW, and completed my BA at Humboldt University Berlin.

You can reach me:  martha.kunicki@princeton.edu, martha.kunicki@hu-berlin.de, and martha.kunicki@theater-im-zimmer.de 

You can also contact me via mobile phone: +49 172 5211551.

Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

(1) ‘Integrational Creativity: from Combining and Exploring to Blending and Transforming’, in ‘Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy’, Routledge, co-authored with Prof. Michael Beaney  

https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2024.2389992

(2) ‘AI-Human-Co-Creativity’, in ‘Vincent C. Müller (Ed.), Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: The State of the Art 2023’, Springer. (Forthcoming)