AI in Arts, Media and Design: Fostering Connection and Creativity
AI for Arts, Media and Design is for anyone who uses social media, cares about the arts and civic society, or is interested in the state-of-the-art in applying AI to communication and creative practice. The discussion will center around examples of how AI tools are being used to foster connection or dissension between people and groups, and how artists are using AI not just to speed up production but in creative ways to expose, critique, and leverage its capabilities for human experience and expression. The presenters are designers and artists who blend research with practice, and whose human-centered approaches to AI systems show how they can be used both to solve and create problems for society.
PRESENTED BY:
Nabeel Gallani
Assistant Professor
Design and Data Analysis
College of Arts, Media and Design
Northeastern University
Professor Gillani is an Assistant Professor of Design and Data Analysis at Northeastern University between the College of Arts, Media and Design and the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. He directs the Plural Connections Group, and his research interests involve using tools from computation and design to foster pluralism—an inclusive response to diversity in society—in ways that promote educational, economic, and social inclusion. More specifically, he seeks to apply methods from machine learning, data science, and design to foster more equitable connections across segregated spaces, like 1) educational inequalities stemming from segregated schools and neighborhoods and 2) echo chambers and empathy gaps in social and mainstream media environments.
Jennifer Gradecki
Associate Professor
College of Arts, Media and Design
Northeastern University
Professor Gradecki is an Associate Professor in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University, and an artist-theorist who investigates secretive and specialized socio-technical systems. Her artistic research has focused on social science techniques, financial instruments, dataveillance technologies, intelligence analysis, artificial intelligence, and social media misinformation. Gradecki has presented and exhibited at venues including Ars Electronica (Linz), NeMe (Cypress), Media Art History (Krems), ADAF (Athens), and the Centro Cultural de España (México). Her research has been published in Big Data & Society, Visual Resources, and Leuven University Press. Her artwork has been funded by Science Gallery Dublin, Science Gallery Detroit, and the NEoN Digital Arts Festival.
Derek Curry
Associate Professor
College of Arts, Media and Design
Northeastern University
Professor Curry is an Associate Professor in the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University. His interdisciplinary practice combines artistic production with research techniques from the humanities, science and technology studies, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. He uses a practice-based research approach to investigate topics where information may be limited, and to create artworks and games that provide an experiential understanding of topics where information may be limited, such as automated decision-making systems used by algorithmic stock trading systems and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) gathering practices.