Info-session on AI + Creativity Course for Fine Arts Students

Join inaugural AI expert-in-residence, Christian Beltrami, for an info session on the new AI + Creativity course, related to the CTRL + AI – Human Creativity and Agency in the Age of AI initiative, bringing together leading artists and cultural practitioners into the classroom and in conversations with the public.

Supported by the Tom Berry Fund for AI and Creativity, the initiative combines a for-credit Fine Arts undergraduate course with a series of six public conversations and hands-on workshops that foreground artistic agency, experimentation, and critical engagement., open to all Fine Arts undergraduate students. This 3-credit intensive will run May 11–June 1, 2026, and is paired with a year-long series of public events starting in March 2026.

Course Description:

This project-based studio course prepares students to integrate generative AI into professional creative workflows as a collaborative tool, not a substitute for authorship. Moving beyond simple prompting, students will learn to use AI to explore divergent directions, generate raw material, and accelerate iteration, while maintaining rigorous professional standards. Through reading and discussion, students will develop a strong understanding of how to think through bias mitigation, provenance and copyright, and develop an ethical framework for their AI augmented creative practice.

The curriculum operationalizes a Human → AI → Human workflow. Students will conduct structured experimentation using AI to produce unexpected ideas, variations, and cross disciplinary concepts, then apply disciplined curation, editing, and refinement to ensure that human intent, taste, and decision making remain the driving force of the work.

Projects are tailored to each student’s discipline (film, design, media arts, scenography, dramaturgy, music composition, etc.), with an emphasis on repeatable methods that can be applied in real production environments.

Key Pedagogical Pillars:

●      Process Control: Prioritizing curation over generation by “sandwiching” AI output between human ideation and human finishing.
●      Aesthetic Literacy: Training students to recognize and override default model aesthetics and biases to achieve distinctive, author-driven work.
●      Applied Ethics: Treating copyright, bias mitigation, and provenance as practical production competencies—embedded in the pipeline, not discussed only in theory.

Info-session

Date & Time: Thursday, Feb 26, 1–2 PM | Zoom: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/82513383335, Meeting ID: 825 1338 3335