XAIxArts manifesto: Explainable AI for the Arts

Nick  Bryan-Kinns; Shuoyang  Zheng; Francisco  Castro; Makayla  Lewis,; Jia-Rey Chang; Gabriel  Vigliensoni; Terence  Broad; Michael Paul  Clemens; Elizabeth Wilson

doi:10.1145/3706599.3716227

XAIxArts manifesto: Explainable AI for the Arts

Nick Bryan-Kinns
, Shuoyang Zheng
, Francisco Castro
, Makayla Lewis,
, Jia-Rey Chang
, Gabriel Vigliensoni
, Terence Broad
, Michael Paul Clemens
, Elizabeth Wilson

School of Arts, English and Languages

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Explainable AI (XAI) is concerned with how to make AI models more understandable to people. To date these explanations have predominantly been technocentric - mechanistic or productivity oriented. This paper introduces the Explainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts) manifesto to provoke new ways of thinking about explainability and AI beyond technocentric discourses. Manifestos offer a means to communicate ideas, amplify unheard voices, and foster reflection on practice. To supports the co-creation and revision of the XAIxArts manifesto we combine a World Café style discussion format with a living manifesto to question four core themes: 1) Empowerment, Inclusion, and Fairness; 2) Valuing Artistic Practice; 3) Hacking and Glitches; and 4) Openness. Through our interactive living manifesto experience we invite participants to actively engage in shaping this XIAxArts vision within the CHI community and beyond.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Naomi Yamashita, Vanessa Evers
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400713958
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3716227
Publication status	Published - 25 Apr 2025
Event	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025 - PACIFICO Yokohama , Yokohama, Japan Duration: 26 Apr 2025 → 01 May 2025 https://chi2025.acm.org/

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Conference	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	26/04/2025 → 01/05/2025
Internet address	https://chi2025.acm.org/

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Bryan-Kinns, N., Zheng, S., Castro, F., Lewis, M., Chang, J.-R., Vigliensoni, G., Broad, T., Clemens, M. P., & Wilson, E. (2025). XAIxArts manifesto: Explainable AI for the Arts. In N. Yamashita, & V. Evers (Eds.), CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3716227

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XAIxArts manifesto: Explainable AI for the Arts. / Bryan-Kinns, Nick ; Zheng, Shuoyang ; Castro, Francisco et al.
CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Naomi Yamashita; Vanessa Evers. Association for Computing Machinery, 2025.

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