THE CREATIVE GESTURE SYMPOSIUM 2024: THE CREATIVE GESTURE SYMPOSIUM 2024
PROGRAM

Days: Tuesday, May 28th Wednesday, May 29th Thursday, May 30th

Tuesday, May 28th

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09:00-09:40 Session 1: Institutional Greetings and Welcome
09:00
(The Chancellor of the University of Molise) Institutional Greetings
09:20
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
09:30
Possibility Studies Network (PSN)
09:40
Associazione Italiana di Sociologia (AIS)
09:40-11:00 Session 2: Plenary Session: Creative Gestures
09:40
Cyber-Creativity: How Humans Co-Create with AI in the DA VINCI Model (abstract)
10:20
Drawing as Creative Inquiry: A Pragmatist Approach
11:30-13:30 Session 3A: Creativity and Digital Technologies
11:30
Habitus machines: material and symbolic domestications in the age of AI
12:00
How creative is generative AI? A case for public philosophy (abstract)
12:30
AI Creativity and Human Enhancement: The Identity Link (abstract)
13:00
'You Are (Not) an Algorithm': Predictions, Habits, and Other Jeopardies
11:30-13:30 Session 3B: Communication and Dissemination of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
11:30
Tra chiese e castelli: gli scavi dell’Università del Molise in contesti di età medievale della regione (abstract)
12:00
Innovazioni tecnologiche e digitali: nuovi ambiti applicativi per lo studio dei siti medievali e postmedievali del Molise (abstract)
12:30
Cultura materiale di età medievale e moderna: nuovi dati dagli scavi dell’Università del Molise (abstract)
11:30-13:30 Session 3C: Creative Jurisprudence and Legal Problem Solving
11:30
Creative Law, Creative Judicial Activity and Social Changes (abstract)
12:00
The Creative Gesture. Juridical Discretion between Courts and Public Authorities (abstract)
12:30
The utopian-dystopian insularity between law and literature: the experience of the Rose Island and Pirandello's new colony (abstract)
13:00
When the word creates. Language, philosophy, and law (abstract)
11:30-13:30 Session 3D: Creativity and Performing Arts
11:30
Poor Gestures: Reimagining Giuseppe Penone’s Arte Povera in the light of Giorgio Agamben’s philosophy (abstract)
12:00
When touch is refused or accepted in art (abstract)
12:30
Finite Creations: Art and the Horizons of Meaning (abstract)
13:00
From the Magician to the Surgeon and Back Again Tele-Action and the Creative Power of Distant Gestures (abstract)
11:30-13:30 Session 3E: The Transformative Effects of Creativity
11:30
Constraints, possibilities, and something more
12:00
The transformative effects of a 'politics of gesture': the case of “Performing Gender and Dancing in Your Shoes” project (abstract)
12:30
Transformative versus explorative creativity. Tracing the differences between human agency and AI through the analysis of defining assumptions, automatisms, incapacities and computer-based evaluation tests (abstract)
13:00
Creativity in Digital Society: An Educational Perspective
16:30-18:30 Session 5: Plenary Session: Creative Professions
16:30
The Beauty in a Sustainably Built Environment (abstract)
16:50
Creativity grows in the realm of necessity
17:10
Google future of education
17:30
"Iconic Inspiration" - From Sketch to Screen (abstract)
Wednesday, May 29th

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09:00-11:00 Session 6A: Creativity at Work: Genealogy, Semiotics, and Well-Being
09:00
For a historical and conceptual genealogy of creativity. Creativity as a component of postmodern Ideology? (abstract)
09:30
Professional supervision for social workers as a creative tool to promote well-being. (abstract)
10:00
Landscape as creative gesture. Eco-cultural artwork between archaeology and materialistic semiotics (abstract)
10:30
Deactivate the machine. Agamben the pathology of gesture (abstract)
09:00-11:00 Session 6B: Creativity as a Literary Gesture
09:00
The self as multiplicity in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: Tracing identity by way of pragmatism (abstract)
09:30
The creative comprehension as a literary gesture (abstract)
10:00
How the tale is spun: the creativity of habits in narratives (abstract)
10:30
Creative Writing in COVID-19 Pandemic: Crises and Challenges (abstract)
09:00-11:00 Session 6C: Philosophical Approaches to Creative Gestures
09:00
Synthetic Reasoning and Gesture
09:30
Mathemathical Gesture
10:00
The Creative Modality. Charles S. Peirce on Possibility (abstract)
10:30
The creative imagination: tracing phenomenological gestures across inner worlds (abstract)
09:00-11:00 Session 6D: Creativity, Art, and Social Change
09:00
Creativity without Creative Product (abstract)
09:30
Pain Pals as the Collective Creation of a Pain-Centered World: Strategies for Playful Actions Leading to Social Change (abstract)
10:00
Falling beyond the ideas of creative avant-garde: exploring the politics-aesthetic bond in youth-led social movements. From grassroots activism in Naples and Milan to global networks. (abstract)
10:30
Gesturing Towards the Virtualization and Defamiliarization of Our Presents: Ursula Le Guin’s “Cartographies of the Possible” (abstract)
11:40-13:30 Session 8: Plenary Session: Creativity and Multi/Inter/Transdisciplinarity
Chair:
11:40
Creativity as a Transdisciplinary Concept (abstract)
12:20
Gesture as Form: Plant Life as Dynamic Matter (abstract)
13:00
Collaborative intelligence and creative gestures for the future of safety critical systems. A human centred perspective (abstract)
15:00-17:00 Session 9A: The Creativity of Critical Gestures
15:00
Metaphor as Picture and Gesture in Wittgenstein (abstract)
15:30
Dalinian Gestures: Freedom as Sovereignty and Political Ambivalence (abstract)
16:00
Adorno in the Mirror (abstract)
16:30
Creating Scenes. Freud as a Genealogist (abstract)
15:00-17:00 Session 9B: Techology and Creative Gestures
15:00
Intentional Action and Creativity - The Challenge of AI (abstract)
15:30
Media archaeology and gestures. Bodily inscriptions, affective imprints, and technical objects. (abstract)
16:00
Triggering photography. A qualitative analysis of the media debate about the artistic gesture of Boris Eldagsen. (abstract)
15:00-17:00 Session 9C: Not only “experts”: paths of creativity in/and the “system of science”
15:00
Paul K. Feyerabend on Creativity in Art and Science (abstract)
15:30
Inebriation and the Apparatus: Vilém Flusser on the Creative Gesture (abstract)
16:00
Beyond the individual and the collective: David Bohm's perspective on creativity (abstract)
15:00-17:00 Session 9D: Creativity and Communication
15:00
AI and Creativity in the Media: An Abductive Perspective
15:30
Gestures as metacognitive moves: On the creative potential of multimodal semiosis during musical improvisation (abstract)
16:00
Rereading Vilém Flusser in the light of enactivism. Towards a new cognitive media theory (abstract)
Thursday, May 30th

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09:00-11:00 Session 10A: New Technologies, Creative Practices and Cultural Heritage
09:00
Perspectival Kinaesthetic Imaging at the service of archaeology and cultural heritage (abstract)
09:30
Mapping creative gestures in crafts: embodied cognition, metaphor and meaning (abstract)
10:00
Creativity and the aesthetics of material engagement: the case of paintings (abstract)
10:30
Creative Gestures as Sketches and Sculptures in Architectural Design (abstract)
09:00-11:00 Session 10B: New Digital Tools and Technologies for Archaeology
09:00
Craniofacial reconstruction of the knight of Tomb no. 29 from a Lombard- Avar cemetery of Vicenne in Central Italy (Campochiaro, Molise, 6the8th Century AD) (abstract)
09:30
Exploring the knowledge over the dark. Advanced multidisciplinary archaeology investigations from Polla and Pertosa caves (Salerno, Italy). (abstract)
10:00
Virtual Reality for Archaeological Dissemination. KV62: The Tomb of Tutankhamun (abstract)
10:30
Social media and social networks: new creative tools for archaeological heritage communication
09:00-11:00 Session 10C: Art and Law in the Age of AI
09:00
Creativity and New Frontiers of Art in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence (abstract)
09:30
Creativity in Law and Music: The Judge and the Musician Between Text and Context (abstract)
10:00
The creative gesture in copyright law. From the artistic ferment of the 20th century to Artificial Intelligence. (abstract)
10:30
Legal Design and Creativity
09:00-11:00 Session 10D: Creative Gestures, Epistemic Diversity, and Social Change
09:00
Feminine literature as a radical political gesture: Gilman, Solanas, and other W.I.T.C.H.E.S.
09:30
Practices of desire: feminist approaches to politics and social change (abstract)
10:00
Composting-with-care as a Creative Gesture: Fostering Epistemic Diversity in Interdisciplinary Practices (abstract)
10:30
Experience as a creative process: between psychology and the social sciences
09:00-11:00 Session 10E: The Barriers and Challenges to Creativity
09:00
Creativity and Nothingness (abstract)
09:30
Everything has to be done the Polish Way. Creativity Barriers Experienced by Innovators in a Post-Soviet Society (abstract)
10:00
Stealing considered as one of the fine arts (abstract)
10:30
Penelope's Web 3.0 Old and new inequalities in the fashion of the future (abstract)
11:40-13:30 Session 12: Plenary Session: Creative Gestures
11:40
Creativity in the arts as resource for individual, collective, and public memories (abstract)
12:20
Understanding the importance of epistemic communities in creativity research
13:00
Techno-Aesthetics in the (Neg) Anthropocene (abstract)