Generative AI—love it or hate it—is transforming the creative landscape. It challenges long-held notions of control, agency, and creative burden, while amplifying core elements of creative work like iteration and divergent thinking.

The interactive conversation in this a2ru webinar featuring UNLV architecture professor Joshua Vermillion, on a panel with other experts, invites participants to explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning redefine our understanding of creativity and human expression, as we consider the role of AI as enhancement for creative practice workflows and how to teach these new creative processes. Panelists will provide current resources to stay informed about the rapidly evolving AI for the Arts landscape.

How can AI help us tell more compelling stories, design more imaginative visuals, and redefine what it means to be creative in a digital age? What do AI technologies reveal about the uniquely human aspects of storytelling, performance, and the creative process itself? How can we teach skills for using generative AI in ethical and empowering ways?

Key Takeaways

• Understand how generative AI is reshaping creative processes.
• Gain insight into the innovation landscape of AI and its applications in visual and narrative arts and how to teach them.
• Learn to evaluate AI tools for creative projects.
• Reflect critically on the intersection of human creativity and machine capabilities.
• Discover ways to lean into human creativity when working with AI tools. 
• Find resources to stay informed about AI tools. 

Audience

This webinar is ideal for creatives, educators, technologists, and anyone curious about the evolving relationship between AI and human creativity. Whether you are a designer, performer, writer, or educator, this session provides a platform to rethink your role in a world increasingly shaped by AI-enhanced workflows for creative practice.

This webinar is inspired by contributions in the a2ru/UNLV collaboration special issue Artificial Intelligence and Possible Futures for the Arts. Find out more on the a2ru website.