Explainable AI for the Arts: XAIxArts

Abstract

This first workshop on explainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts) brings together a community of researchers and creative practitioners in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, AI, explainable AI (XAI), and Digital Arts to explore the role of XAI for the Arts. XAI is a core concern of Human-Centred AI and relies heavily on HCI techniques to explore how complex and difficult to understand AI models such as deep learning techniques can be made more understandable to people. However, XAI research has primarily focused on work-oriented and task-oriented explanations of AI and there has been little research on XAI for creative domains such as the Arts. This workshop will: i) build an XAIxArts research community; ii) map out the current and future possible landscapes of XAIxArts; iii) critically reflect on the potential of XAI for the Arts, forming the basis for an edited book on XAIxArts and an international network of researchers. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Interaction design; Visualization; • Applied computing → Arts and humanities; • Computing methodologies → Artificial intelligence.

Using Incongruous Genres to Explore Music Making with AI Generated Content

“…We provided our researcher-musicians with a generative AI music plugin [3] as part of a larger research programme exploring the design and evaluation of explainable AI tools for the Arts [3,10,11,13]. Whilst the plugin is not as finessed as commercial AI tools such as Google Magenta's plugin suite [55], it does offer some similar functionalities for melody generation.…”

“…Similarly, the Punk musicians selected outputs which they felt were "least worst". AI design implications: This use of negative affect to describe selection criteria suggests scope for alternatives to AI user interfaces navigation to the "best output" -for example, supporting navigation to awkward, unusual, or ill-fitting outputs around the edges of intended AI output might provide interesting and stimulating outputs for artists, much as artists search for AI glitches [13,18].…”