16328: The Art World as a Lab for Understanding AI’s Impact on Creative Practices and Organizations

Saturday, July 26, 2025

08:30 - 10:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall D- D1-m1

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Practice,Research
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/B8XkK8

Organizer(s)

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Lior Zalmanson

Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv U.
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Shiyan Zhang

Lancaster U. Management School, United Kingdom
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Deborah Mateja

University of Mannheim

Panelist(s)

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Marleen Huysman

KIN Center for Digital Innovation, Vrije U. Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Jeffrey V. Nickerson

Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
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Mukti Khaire

Cornell University, United States
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Lior Zalmanson

Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv U.
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Emmanuelle Vaast

McGill U., Canada

The PDW explores how the art world serves as a crucial case study for understanding artificial intelligence's profound effects on human agency, professional identity, and creative work. As one of the first domains where AI directly challenges core notions of human creativity, authorship, and professional expertise, the art world offers unique insights into how emerging technologies reshape occupational boundaries and professional legitimacy. From collaborative AI-human artworks winning competitions to heated debates over algorithmic replication of artistic styles, these developments illuminate broader questions about technological displacement, creative agency, and the future of human-AI interaction across industries. Through a synthesis of pre-recorded insights from leading voices in the field—museum directors, curators, aesthetics researchers, and filmmakers—and live panel discussions with distinguished scholars, this workshop examines how technological disruption in the arts mirrors and anticipates changes in other professional domains. This interactive session brings together scholars from information systems, organizational behavior, strategy, and technology management to explore how the art world's experience with AI illuminates universal challenges of maintaining professional identity and agency in an increasingly automated world. Participants will engage with cutting-edge research and real-world cases that reveal how artistic communities' responses to AI adoption provide valuable lessons for understanding technological transformation across professional fields.