PhD InFormation

After successfully defending my PhD in Philosophy on AI and Creativity, I am now a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Princeton University in Engineering.

I founded my own company in Germany 10 years ago, as a CEO and director of a theater in Hamburg, and producer of German theater production premieres, such as the award-winning theater play “The Turing Machine” about the true story of Alan Turing, as the father of computer science and AI, with his famous paper “Can Machines Think?”.

Postdoc Research Scholar

As a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Engineering at Princeton, we are working on developing a novel AI technology for visualizing our thoughts from EEG-to-text-to-image-to-video in real-time and explores the Co-Creativity of AI and humans at the intersection of philosophy, electrical computer engineering, and entrepreneurship, at Princeton University. This multidisciplinary research project explores the collaborative creative processes between humans and AI systems, thereby aiming to develop a deeper practical understanding and methodologies by co-creating and building novel applications to enhance Human-AI-Co-Creativity.

This novel AI model can detect emotional, physical and mental states, to improve human’s well-being to make our lives healthier and happier, and enhancing our creativity through AI-Human Co-Creativity. We will use such technologies to bring a hybrid human-AI experience to theater, art, and music. This co-creativity will open new doors to how downstream applications can be built with such AI models, resulting in a prototype system with co-creative capabilities.

PhD Dissertation

My PhD in philosophy on AI and Co-Creativity at the Humboldt University Berlin and Princeton University PU Princeton-Humboldt Exchange Program.

My PhD is a multidisciplinary research project bringing together the arts and humanities, social sciences, and computer engineering, and philosophy, exploring how AI can be creative and how we can be co-creative with AI in science, arts, music, theater, by illustrating the collective co-creativity of humans and AI, and how AI can enhance our creativity.

My PhD dissertation explores how our concept of creativity has to be rethought in light of the increasing role of technology in creative practice, thereby enriching the concept to include collective creativity produced by humans and AI. Collective creativity arises from the collective practices of people in relation to their nature, environment, cultures, societies, techniques, technologies, and AI. This conception of collective creativity challenges the traditional idea of the individual genius. By expanding our concept of creativity, we are able to acknowledge the processes and products of humans and AI as creative.

Working together with AI can enhance creativity because digital technologies can expand the capacities of human creativity. I illustrate this by taking case studies of co-creativity in art, music, text, and holograms in theater by drawing on my experience as a theater director and producer involved in collective creativity and as a philosopher trained in analytical thinking. Examples of co-created art includes DALL·E, co-created music includes AIVA, and co-created text includes ChatGPT. The most exciting recent examples of co-creativity occur in immersive theater experiences, which integrate multi-sensory performances.

Master of Arts in Philosophy

Previously, I completed my MA in Philosophy at the Humboldt University Berlin HU, with an exchange year at the University of New South Wales in Sydney UNSW, and completed my BA at Humboldt University Berlin.

Contact

You can reach me:  martha.kunicki@princeton.edu 

and martha.kunicki@theater-im-zimmer.de 

You can also contact me via mobile phone: +49 172 5211551.

Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

(1) ‘Integrational Creativity: from Combining and Exploring to Blending and Transforming’, in ‘Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy’, Routledge, co-authored with Prof. Michael Beaney  

https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2024.2389992

(2) ‘AI-Human-Co-Creativity’, in ‘Vincent C. Müller (Ed.), Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: The State of the Art 2023’, Springer. (Forthcoming)