An academic symposium on “Aesthetic Issues in AI-Generated Content” was held at NENU on May 24. The event was jointly organized by the School of Chinese Language and Literature, the Advanced Institute of Literature, and the Jilin Provincial Literary and Art Criticism Research Base. The symposium brought together scholars and experts from leading institutions, including Peking University, Sichuan University, Jilin University, Shenzhen University, Capital Normal University, Jiangsu Normal University, Higher Education Press, Social Science Front, and NENU. Participants engaged in in-depth discussions on a range of topics, including the reconstruction of aesthetic theory in the age of artificial intelligence, the aesthetic mechanisms and value boundaries of AI-generated content, and the development of an independent Chinese framework for aesthetic knowledge. Pang Lisheng, Deputy Secretary of the CPC NENU Committee, attended the opening ceremony and delivered remarks. Bai Bing, Assistant to the President of NENU, presided over the ceremony. Representatives from the School of Chinese Language and Literature and the Advanced Institute of Literature also attended the event.
Participants noted that the symposium provided an important platform for fostering academic collaboration and advancing interdisciplinary research at the intersection of AI aesthetics, digital humanities, and literary theory. They also emphasized its significance in supporting the development of a distinctly Chinese aesthetic knowledge system in the era of artificial intelligence.
(From News Center, translated by Gao Ziqi, revised by Chen Yanxu)
