Paulina Emilia Nordström

• Nordström, Paulina Emilia; Lundman, Riina & Hautala, Johanna (2023). Evolving Coagency between Artists and AI in the Spatial Cocreative Process of Artmaking. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. ISSN 2469-4452. 113(9), p. 2203–2218. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2210647. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article applies theoretical and empirical discussions of emerging human and digital technology relations to our interest in collaborative artist–artificial intelligence (AI) artmaking processes. Thus far, the theoretical focus has largely been on mediating (code) and merged (cyborg) human–technology relations, with mutual (coagency) relations yet to be adequately explored. To address this, we nuance the theoretical discussion and extend the empirical research, analyzing the spatial cocreative artmaking process through video interviews with eighteen Finnish artists using AI. Drawing on the work of Barad, we regard humans and AI as fundamentally entwined, receiving their agencies through intra-action. Building on this, we demonstrate how the agencies of artists and AI emerge and mutually evolve across three stages of the creative process: (1) coding and data, (2) learning and training, and (3) curating the outcome. Thus, through our empirical research on how artist and AI create new material and meaningful artworlds, we are able to nuance understanding of coagency as a spatial process. Key Words: agency, art, artificial intelligence, cocreativity, digital geographies.

• Lundman, Riina & Nordström, Paulina Emilia (2023). Creative geographies in the age of AI: Co-creative spatiality and the emerging techno-material relations between artists and artificial intelligence. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. ISSN 0020-2754. 48(3), p. 451–670. doi: 10.1111/tran.12608. Show summary

  Artificial intelligence (AI) expands the more-than-human perspective on creativity and creative geographies, as new techno-material relations and spatialities are formed when humans and AI create together. In this paper, we suggest the concept of ‘co-creative spatiality’ to refer to the special sites, relations and processes of human–AI collaboration in artistic creative practice. Our study builds on interviews with 26 Finland-based artists who have used AI in their artistic work. In our analysis, we focus on the questions of what, how, where, who and with of creativity, through which we study the spatialities of creativity and their links to AI. We discuss, how the emerging techno-materialities of AI affect co-creative spatiality by stretching the boundaries of (human) imagination and sparking creativity across new imaginative terrains. Co-creative spatiality reveals novel and unfamiliar collaborations that constitute our material worlds and, therefore, we believe it invites geographical analysis from all those interested in the transformations of creative and artistic practices in the age of AI.

• Nordström, Paulina Emilia (2023). A rhizomatic research story about the changing landscapes of rooftop urbanism in Peckham, London. Landscape Research. ISSN 0142-6397. 48(4), p. 561–582. doi: 10.1080/01426397.2023.2167961. Show summary

  In this article, I introduce rooftop urbanism as a landscape between earth and sky. The concept of landscape provides a framework within which rooftop urbanism can be studied as a multi-sensuous, bodily lived relation with rooftop sites at various heights in the urban fabric. Through encounters with the materialities of the roof and the rooftoppers of the former Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham, London, I craft a rhizomatic research story. I discuss the moving landscape experienced by inhabiting a rooftop above ground level and under the sky, and how the mobile landscape can be an affective means of sense-making, connecting rooftoppers beyond the rooftop. Given that changing landscapes cannot be reconstructed, I evoke impressions using images and words, which can then be read as expressions for further thought.

• Hietala, Reija; Ijäs, Asko; Pikner, Tarmo; Kull, Anne; Printsmann, Anu & Kuusik, Maila [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2021). Data integration and participatory process in developing integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) in the northern Baltic Sea. Journal of Coastal Conservation. ISSN 1400-0350. 25, p. 1–15. doi: 10.1007/s11852-021-00833-4.
• Arslan, E Seda; Nordström, Paulina Emilia; Ijäs, Asko; Hietala, Reija & Fagerholm, Nora (2021). Perceptions of Cultural Ecosystem Services: spatial differences in urban and rural areas of Kokemäenjoki, Finland. Landscape Research. ISSN 0142-6397. 46(6), p. 828–844. doi: 10.1080/01426397.2021.1907322.
• Hautala, Johanna & Nordström, Paulina Emilia (2019). Creative city, mobility, and creativity: Finnish artists in Berlin. Mobilities. ISSN 1745-0101. 14(6). doi: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1616445.

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• Ystanes, Margit; Nordström, Paulina Emilia; Pull, Karl Emil; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan Storm & Huidobro-Goya, Jose Alejandro (2022). Film screening about urban development: struggles for social justice and housing rights.
• Nordström, Paulina Emilia; Pull, Karl Emil; Scoville-Simonds, Morgan Storm & Huidobro-Goya, Jose Alejandro (2022). Film screening about urban development: struggles for social justice and housing rights: "Dirty Games: Olympic Evictions in Rio de Janeiro".

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