Lecture
Workshop Generative AI & Embodied Cognition
- Date
- Thursday 22 May 2025
- Time
- Address
- TBC
Spring Workshop: Exploring the Gap between Embodied Cognition and Generative AI
We warmly invite you to participate in our upcoming Spring Workshop, Exploring the Gap between Embodied Cognition and Generative AI, jointly organised by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) with support of Leiden University Kiem grant for interdisciplinary collaboration.
This workshop will investigate the evolving impact of generative artificial intelligence on human creativity across society, with a particular focus on the underexplored relationship between AI and embodied cognition—especially as expressed through movement, gesture, and sensory experience. To enrich our exploration, the programme will feature a keynote talk and an immersive embodied exercise led by Petra Gemeinboeck, as well as presentations by Peter van der Putten, Marianne Bossema, and Tom Kouwenhoven. Following the presentations, an interactive workshop session will be held, aimed at fostering diverse perspectives, uncovering interrelations, and addressing points of friction.
Program:
9:45- Doors open
10:00-10:10 - Introduction by Rob Saunders and Ksenia Fedorova
10:10-10:30 - Presentation by Marianne Bossema
10:30-10:50 - Presentation by Tom Kouwenhoven
10:50-11:00 - Coffee break
11:00-12:00 - Presentation & Embodied exercise : Petra Gemeinboeck & Rob Saunders
12:00-13:00 - Lunch break
13:00-13:45 - Presentation by Peter van der Putten
13:45 - Workshop session: Four discussion tables exploring themes such as LLMs for Embodied, Extended, Embedded and Enactive forms of cognition, role of gesture, performativity and forms of ‘bodies’.
15:00 - Plenary discussion of the results
16:00 - Closing
Date: 22 May 2025
Location: Room GORLB- BE.0.09 - Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC Leiden
Please be welcomed to take part in the workshop by registering via this link at your earliest convenience before 18th of May 2025.
To register, please follow this link
Contact: Pragya Jain
Organisers: Dr Rob Saunders (LIACS) & Dr Ksenia Fedorova (LUCAS)
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