Can AI be creative? To know requires brushing aside a cloud of rhetoric from tech companies that obscures its true power and perils. In this workshop, participants will expand their practice with generative AI beyond monolithic oracles like ChatGPT to understand better how large language models produce ideas and images that have never existed before — and what limits we should place on its use accordingly. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop and an open mind to the presentation.
Jon Ippolito is an artist, writer and curator who teaches New Media and Digital Curation at the University of Maine. Winner of Tiffany, Lannan, American Foundation and Thoma awards, Ippolito is co-founder of the Variable Media Network for preserving new media art, UMaine's Digital Curation and Just-in-Time Learning programs, and Learning With AI, a toolkit for educators and students that makes it easy to filter for AI assignments and resources by discipline or purpose. Ippolito has given over 200 presentations, co-authored the books "At the Edge of Art" and "Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory" and published 80 chapters and articles in periodicals from Artforum to the Washington Post. His AI focus is creators — writers, programmers and media makers — and how the technical, aesthetic, and legal ramifications of generative AI empower and frustrate them.
Join us on Tuesday, Feb. 20, for this exciting presentation from Ippolito. The presentation will begin in Oden 120 at 11:10 a.m. We hope to see you there!