June 9, 2026

Creative and Intelligent – or Just Well Trained?

Perspectives on Gen AI

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Studio B at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences
Am Schwanenteich 4b, 09648 Mittweida

Due to construction work, access is only possible via Leisniger Straße or the street “Am Schwanenteich.”

Generative AI is rapidly reshaping the creative landscape. Yet this technological momentum raises fundamental questions: Are these AI systems expanding our creative horizons? What do we mean when we call something “creative” in an age where machines can generate images, text and music at scale?

Some see generative AI as a powerful collaborator that opens up new processes and ways of thinking. Others fear the erosion of authorship, originality and the cultural labour behind creative work.

How do we define creativity today—and how might AI transform the way we imagine, design and express ourselves in the future?

Note: This event is part of the 2026 edition of the international week „Strengthening Higher Education Partnerships in the Digital Transformation Era“. The discussion will be held in English. There will be (AI generated) German subtitles. 

Sarah Bowman

… is a social scientist specializing in applied social sciences and works as an organizational consultant and lecturer at universities, where she mentors students from around the world—most recently at Northumbria University and previously at the University of the Arts London in the United Kingdom. As a lecturer, Sarah Bowman is passionately committed to learning experiences that foster creativity, ingenuity, wisdom, humble intelligence, and ethical judgment as key competencies crucial for a world full of unknown unknowns. A common thread in her work is bringing about change through the interplay of creativity and communication.

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Nadja Verena Marcin

… is an award-winning visual artist, filmmaker, and researcher based in Berlin and New York who explores gender, history, morality, psychology, and human behavior from an intersectional feminist perspective. Drawing on literature, philosophy, art history, and pop culture, she creates immersive works addressing ecological and human rights issues that critically examine representations of women and expose ideological power structures. Her projects blur the line between fiction and theory and examine how social narratives are constructed and normalized.

Matthias Hornschuh

…is a composer, university lecturer and publicist. In his lectures and his writings, he explores the intersection of culture, media, technology, society, and law. Hornschuh is the chairman of the professional association mediamusic and the spokesperson for “Initiative Urheberrecht”, a copyright initiative, which has repeatedly provided significant impetus to the legal and policy discourse in Germany surrounding generative AI. His book on culture, AI and the devaluation of knowledge work was published in September 2025 (“Wir geben uns auf. KI, Kultur und die Entwertung der Wissensarbeit”).

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Dr. Stefanie Kremmel

Host of the evening

… is coordinator of ILEAS, a project on innovative teaching structures in the age of AI and generational change— and thus continually explores the possibilities and implications of generative AI in higher education. With her background in translation studies, she is particularly interested in how the use of language models and machine translation influences not only our practice of multilingualism, but also, at a fundamental level, our language use and ultimately the way we think.