Proceedings of The Fourth International Workshop on eXplainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts 4)

Shuoyang Jasper Zheng, Terence Broad, Elizabeth Wilson, Adam Cole, Ziqing Xu, Jia-Rey Chang, Gabriel Vigliensoni, Jeba Rezwana, Lanxi Xiao, Michael Clemens, Makayla Lewis, Alan Chamberlain, Helen Kennedy, Corey Ford, Nick Bryan-Kinns

The fourth workshop on Explainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts) continues to bring together and expand a community of researchers and creative practitioners in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, AI, eXplainable AI (XAI), and Digital Arts to explore the role of XAI for the Arts. XAI is a key concern of Responsible and Human-Centred AI, emphasising HCI techniques that make opaque AI models more understandable to people. XAIxArts offers a distinctive lens to examine explainability through creative and artistic domains. The previous workshops explored the landscape and the speculative futures of AI in creative processes. To respond to emerging challenges and contribute to creative and societal transformation more broadly, this workshop focuses on the operationalisation of XAI in the Arts. Specifically, we will: i) critically reflect on emerging practices that encourage diversity and inclusivity in XAI; ii) collectively ideate a library of missing projects to encourage future collaborations and speculations; iii) scope the development of a resource hub for open XAIxArts projects to archive tangible XAI interventions and facilitate future community building with the wider discourse on Human-Centred AI.