AI Workshops/Lab

Our closing event brings together the semester’s work in an experimental showcase. We’ll set up installations, alt-video projections, interactive docs, and curated galleries of participant projects. This is both a party and a public lab, where everyone...

This session explores how AI can intersect with the oldest tools of learning: paper, chalk, and voice. Participants will experiment with analog note-taking and sketching, then use AI to process, expand, and remix those materials--capturing the content of...

A special evening session (5–6:30pm) in collaboration with the AFVS Department's Pedagogy Seminar (though all are invited to register). We’ll explore techniques for teaching with media for courses that either teach students to create images, videos and...

This workshop looks at how context and prompt engineering can shape large-scale literary analysis. We’ll loop through datasets, chain prompts, and experiment with techniques that marry close and distant reading, while also developing strategies to...

The final session in the VPAL media series explores AI in postproduction. We’ll practice transcript-based editing, experiment with AI-generated VFX and graphics, and explore scripting in Python, Houdini, Blender, and After Effects. Participants will leave...

An experimental day devoted to AI artmaking with an emphasis on introducing the widest possible variety of AI tools for image, video, sound and text production. We’ll generate ghost stories with structuralist twists, recursive image sequences, cloned...

We’ll explore the current state of AI translation, both its surprising strengths and persistent weaknesses. Through hands-on experiments, participants will evaluate quality at scale, test prompt-chaining strategies, and imagine future agentic systems that...

The second workshop in the VPAL media series takes participants into the studio. We’ll experiment with live logging, real-time transcription, and AI-augmented tools for producers and interviewers. Expect demos of augmented prompters, interview bots, and...

This session combines fieldwork and analysis. Participants will visit nearby sites---museums, public spaces, and significant campus locations---to gather observational data. Back in the Lab, we’ll use AI tools to transcribe, code, and analyze the...

The first of three workshops on AI in media production, focused on pre-production. Participants will experiment with using AI for research, scheduling, and planning, as well as image generation for previs and storyboarding. Co-hosted with VPAL, this...