Creative Labour and Critical Futures

Creative Labour and Critical Futures

A Research Cluster Funded by UTSC

Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) project studies the potential for creative workers to generate transformative technological and social futures. What, how, and why do we need a set of critical ethical approaches to digital research in the wake of challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) – the latest in a series of technological transformations not just to the creative sector but to society itself? How can we imagine and design critical and creative futures for creative workers considering this latest AI context?

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The CLCF cluster brings together faculty from different career stages and disciplines across several arts, culture, and media fields of study to offer collaborative and community engaged approaches addressing racialized, gendered, colonial, economic, and geopolitical power dynamics at play in the AI context. Meet our members!

Hadiya Roderique
T.L. Cowan poses for a selfie in a bathroom mirror. The bathroom is in the Helsinki Art Museum, and features the mosaic “You don’t know how beautiful you are” by the artist Tuula Lehtinen. The mosaic is made of ceramic plates that are painted and fired with porcelain colours (https://www.tuulalehtinen.fi/art-architecture/ ). The mosaic features swirls of a colour pallet including pink, orange and white tiles, creating a design that surrounds the walls of the bathroom. The mirror is on a diagonal. T.L. is a tall white queer femme with dark curly hair with bangs and large-framed eye glasses. She is wearing dark pants, a navy-blue fishing vest and a long dark shirt. She is taking the selfie with a phone in a blue case with a blue popsocket. She has line-drawn tattoos on her fingers.
Jas Rault