OPENING KEYNOTE

NATALIE SUMMERS , MANAGER, ARTIST ACCESS PROGRAM AND TEAM MEMBER OF DALL-E, OPENAI, SAN FRANCISCO, CA

With the disruptive release of both ChatGPT and DALL-E2 in the last year, OpenAI has captured our cultural imagination and established itself as a driving force in the emerging generative AI industry. A University of Vermont alumna, Summers provides an insider’s perspective on the rapidly changing generative AI landscape and explores its future possibilities.

Youth Workshop

UMV ART + AI RESEARCH GROUP AND GIRLS WHO CODE , UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT

This workshop teaches high school students how to use code to design patterns and introduce ways of automating colorful, geometric compositions with machine learning. The workshop provides instruction and time for students to work collaboratively and independently.

Presentations

MINNE ATAIRU , ARTIST AND DOCTORAL STUDENT, ART AND ART EDUCATION, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NY

Igún

Co-Created , Atairu presents her Igún project, which uses generative AI to explore the consequences of colonial oppression in sub-Saharan Africa while focusing on repatriation of Benin Bronzes.

JANE ADAMS , ARTIST AND COMPUTER SCIENCE PHD STUDENT IN THE DATA

VISUALIZATION LAB AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, MA

Aerial View: Reflections on Processing Images, from Code to Artifact

Emergent media artist, Jane Adams, shares her creative process for Aerial View , curating aerial photographs to training a machine-learning model to imagine new landscapes, culminating in an illuminated sculpture that encodes time along another dimension.