Experimenting with AI in Art Education.

I have been experimenting with the potential use of AI in some of my professional work. As a result, I find myself working with NSEAD, in an inquiry into the implications of AI for art educators. The results of this work will be published via NSEAD, but I may use this website just to gather and share some ideas and resources.

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The above came from a Serpentine Gallery AI exhibition that seemed extravagantly sensuous and perhaps self-indulgent. I’m rather unwilling to venture into the territory of AI as an art medium.

But this Canva presentation is simply about how art teachers might find AI useful. I wrote it in September 2023. It explores how teachers might use AI to generate relevant and succinct responses to some issues that often arise. In these examples, AI produces a useful initial raw copy, and our role changes to that of an informed editor. The issues vary from preparing for an interview to developing creativity and constructing curriculum plans.

The framework below suggests the areas of AI that might need to be explored by NSEAD in the short term.

Various links and stuff:

This introduces a study (below) from the University of Oxford discussing the impact of AI on artistic creativity .

This links to the project ‘How Machine Learning is Changing Artistic Work‘ from the University of Oxford.

This is an interesting Australian policy (Victoria) on using generative AI in education.

This is a useful one page guide to protecting personal data.

This slide show records my early exploration of AI in the context of my current interests as a spoon-maker

This is the first AI Working Paper. It considered some basic ideas and concepts about AI.

This is the second AI Working Paper. This explored some initial thinking about AI as it might relate to art teachers.

The content for the third working paper is indicated by the agenda above. It is not yet written.

This is a simple (one side of A4) AI writing-frame developed for art teachers.

This is an example of a teacher’s use of ‘Midjourney’ to test the capability of Generative AI

These are some prompts that might be used in ‘Midjourney‘. If anything these illustrate the dangers of students using such prompts. They are here only to illustrate typical text-to-image prompts and responses NOT as a recommendation for student use.

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