Futurist | Keynote Speaker | Creative Technologist (Chicago, USA) powered by Hrvatski Telekom

Ian Beacraft

What happens when society experiences tectonic shifts that shatter established norms? When the outputs of fields from art and music to law and science are commoditized? The coming wave of creative destruction will coincide with a creative revolution. This transformation will benefit society, but our assumptions of what it takes to succeed and to create value will be challenged. Many things we hold to be true today will cease to function as truth. In this DK2023 session, Ian will explore how the inevitable dominance of artificial intelligence across artistic and intellectual pursuits will prompt the age of the Creative Generalist and push creativity into new mediums, giving rise to new institutions, priorities, and a revised social contract.

Creative Machines: How Technology Will Shape Our Future

Creative Machines — How Technology Will Shape Our Future

Srećko Horvat | Philosopher | Author (Croatia)



 "One of the most exciting voices of his generation." This is how the German weekly Der Freitag described Srećko Horvat, a Croatian philosopher and author who produced a blizzard of political works – with several books published when he was barely into his thirties.&nbsp;Nowadays he is known as a fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape.



If you aren't familiar with Horvat's work, you can probably recognise a lot of people who are. He is friends with the former Greek finance minister&nbsp;Yanis Varoufakis; had regular visits with Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, an organisation that publishes news leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources. He is also a staunch friend of Slavoj Žižek, the maverick Slovenian celebrity academic with whom Horvat co-wrote a book in 2013 entitled "What Does Europe Want?".



His writings have appeared in&nbsp;The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel. Aside from co-founding DiEM25, which campaigns to reform the EU into a “realm of shared prosperity, peace and solidarity”, he is a founder of the&nbsp;Subversive festival, an annual jamboree in Zagreb of radical thought that has featured the likes of Oliver Stone and Antonio Negri.