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ART4612C/6925C - Experiments in ARTificial Intelligence
ART 4612C/6925C Digital Media Workshop is a revolving topics, studio workshop. This semester we will explore ARTificial Intelligence. We will learn about the history and theory of AI in computing from a scientific, mythological, and material viewpoint. We will investigate it from a “pharmakological” position that is deeply critical, yet simultaneously analytical with regard to its potential. Not only will we gain a literate understanding of AI, but we will learn “heuretically”: we will learn through the act of making. Students will materially engage AI as a medium for the production of art works. Experience with digital image practices, computer modeling and programming are recommended, but not required. The class is a hands-on, art studio, experimental workshop. It is project-based and students will propose work that explores their own practice using artificial intelligence as a medium or source of inspiration. Sample project ideas include but are not limited to: simulations, networked experiences, generative audio, generative imagery (still and motion), info-viz, general research, etc. As a Senior-level and Graduate-level course, you develop your own project ideas (with our help). Your primary task is to challenge your own abilities and push the boundaries of your current knowledge.
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ART6933 Art + Technology Seminar: Full Luxury AI
ART 6933 Art + Technology Graduate Seminar is a revolving topics graduate-level course. Topics in the past have focused on Interface (2006), Relational Aesthetics (2007), Embodiment (2008), Subjectivity (2009), Politics (2010), Critical Utopia (2011), Nothing (2012), Technogenesis (2013), Sociation (2014), Disaster (2015), Whatever (2016), Privilege (2017), Power Failure (2018), and Art and Class (2020). For Fall 2021 we will consider artificial intelligence from a “pharmakological” perspective. In simple terms: what poison does AI portend and what cure might it propose? We will discuss modes with which cultural practitioners might engage the advance of artificial intelligence, empowering us to make meaningful, material, social change (or not). The seminar will include visiting speakers and field trips along with reading, reflecting, arguing and discussing a broad range of historical, theoretical, and creative works in an individual and small group format. For the “makers", the course is conceived as a companion to the hands-on, workshop-oriented, ART6925C Experiments in ARTificial Intelligence.
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JOU4930-03D3(14462) - Special Study
Gain an understanding of artificial intelligence and machine learning as they apply to the media professions, including journalists reporting on AI. Explore major developments in AI technologies as covered by the mass media. Learn to detect hype and exaggeration in descriptions of AI’s promises and potential risks and dangers. Examine use of AI systems in finance, healthcare, hiring decisions, housing, policing, etc. Note: This course does not include code.