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Teaching Creative Tech In Age Of AI
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| With Carrie Wang (Pioneer Works), Tommy Martinez (Prof., NYU ITP), Lai Yi Ohlsen (Internet Researcher), Sam Lavigne & Nancy Valladares (Artists). |
| Index Chinatown, 120 Walker St, 3rd Fl |
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Feb 17 (Tue) , 2026 @ 07:00 PM
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Note: We will release 50 tickets each Monday leading up to the event. Please check back weekly for updates!
Can you vibe-code learning?
Any educator will tell you that it's been a weird time to be in the classroom since LLMs came about-but teachers of creative technology have had a particularly disorienting experience. On the one hand, we embrace new tools & our ability to critique & experiment with them. On the other, these same tools are radically altering what it means to learn, to teach or even be in the classroom at all. What does it mean to teach creative tech when the tech we're engaging with is reshaping creativity in real time?
We invite educators, students & practitioners at all stages to collectively consider questions we've all likely confronted in one form or another: should we allow generative AI in our curricula, & if so, how might we articulate its ideal use? How can we demonstrate these tools within creative projects without encouraging copy-paste practices or the wholesale outsourcing of understanding? And how will the ways we answer these questions shape classrooms & the field at large in the years to come? In contrast to your Chat log, this dialogue won't necessarily suggest solutions & next steps, but will perhaps move us towards a shared mental model of where we are in the timeline.
Facilitated by Lai Yi Ohlsen
Lai Yi Ohlsen is an Internet researcher & artist. Her creative work has been supported by New Inc, Pioneer Works, Movement Research, Triple Canopy, BRIC & more. She is an adjunct lecturer at The New School in the Parsons Design & Technology Program & a Senior Product Manager of Performance & Network Quality at Cloudflare.
Panelists:
Sam Lavigne is an artist & educator whose work deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, & automation. He is a Creative Capital grantee, recipient of the Pioneer Works Working Artist Fellowship, & the Brown Institute's Magic Grant. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Synthetic Media & Algorithmic Justice at the Parsons School of Design.
Carrie Sijia Wang is a socially-engaged artist & educator. Working with software, video, participatory experience, & performance, she creates digital fragments of reality that explore what it means to be human in a machine-coded world. Wang has been a 2024 Working Artist Fellow at Pioneer Works, a 2023 More Art fellow, a Year 8 member of NEW INC, & a 2020 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient.
Tommy Martinez is an artist & programmer mostly working through research, sound & code. He creates software & musical systems for the internet, embedded devices, & for live multichannel performance. Thomas is currently an adjunct professor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) & the Integrated Design & Media (IDM) program where he teach courses in electronic art.
Nancy Dayanne Valladares is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker & educator currently based in New York. Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Nancy's practice is deeply influenced by the construction of Honduran national identity through botanical & agricultural regimes. Trained as a photographer & filmmaker, her practice examines the networks & flows of image making, & their technopolitics: from sensors, to servers, to precious metal extraction & the carbon intensive footprint of the cloud. Alongside Hsurae, Nancy runs Lythologies.org a decentralized research group interested in climate futures & new ecological imaginaries.
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