Date: Wednesday February 11 2026 at 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Friends of Toronto SIGGRAPH — In-Person Event and Virtual Event
BOOK LAUNCH – Paolo Granata on “Generative Knowledge: Think, Learn and Create with AI”
Wednesday February 11 2026 at 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Desautels Hall, 2nd Floor, South Building, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
105 St. George St., Toronto, ON, M5S 3E6 Canada
An upcoming in-person talk of interest to the SIGGRAPH Toronto community:
Paolo Granata (University of Toronto / Rotman) will be speaking on media, technology, and cultural systems — themes that intersect with graphics, digital storytelling, and emerging creative technologies.
- As SIGGRAPH Toronto restarts regular community programming, we’ll be sharing relevant talks, events, and opportunities like this for our local community.
Event details:
https://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/news-events-and-ideas/public-events/events-listings/2026/february-2026/feb-11-paolo-granata/
IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL EVENT
Agenda:
5:00 pm – Check-in opens + light refreshments
5:30 pm – Presentation by author + interview with moderated Q&A
6:30 pm – Light refreshments + book signing
Book Synopsis: What does it mean to know in a knowledge economy shaped by artificial intelligence?
Generative Knowledge: Think, Learn, Create with AI explores how AI is redefining how we know and especially how knowledge itself is created, shared, and applied.
- Paolo Granata presents a compelling conceptual framework of Generative Knowledge—a dynamic and socially embedded form of knowing that expands through iterative, collaborative, and tool-mediated processes—showing how human-AI collaboration unlocks creative potential previously unimaginable.
- Drawing from a rich intellectual tradition that spans media theory, epistemology, and cognitive science, Generative Knowledge invites readers to rethink what it means to know, not in spite of AI, but in partnership with it.
- The book is structured around six foundational principles—iteration, instrumentality, sociality, inquiry, learnability, and creativity—developing new forms of critical thinking for the AI age.
- These principles and the closing portrait of today’s “generative thinkers” mirror Granata’s conceptual argument and serve as a model for epistemic engagement, with AI as a cognitive partner to generate new knowledge.