Programming Creativity: Semantics and Organisation of Creativity Within IT Enterprises (Edition Kulturwissenschaft)

What does »creativity« mean in the context of IT and what happens when IT acts in its name? Jan Sebastian Zipp examines the concept of creativity in large IT companies in times of digital change, including new ways of working or potential artificial creativity with no human interaction. Drawing on constitutive elements like Silicon Valley or its connection to counterculture, his analysis of the representation and organisation of creativity as a social practice provides insights into the inherent logic of the creativity narrative of IT. This study contributes vital foundations for a critical engagement with today's prevailing understanding of the concept of creativity.

Jan Sebastian Zipp, born in 1985, is based at the Tübingen AI Center, the competence centre for machine learning jointly operated by the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Prior to that, the cultural scientist worked for several years at IBM Research in Zurich while doing his doctoral thesis at Zeppelin Universität. His research focuses on artificial and human creativity, innovation management, digitisation and the future of work.