Industry Panel Webinar - AICAD AI Cross-Institutional Dialogue Series 

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Fri, Apr 10 2026 at 10:52 AM 

Recording of a panel discussion from the AICAD AI Cross-Institutional Dialogue Series. This panel features creative industry professionals who discussed how AI is currently impacting creative work across sectors.  

Panelists responded to the following questions, along with questions from the audience: 

• How are you using AI in your day-to-day work? 

• In your daily (creative) work, where does AI fail? Where do you have to "step in" to fix the AI or take back control of the creative vision? 

• Given the changes brought on by AI use, what are the durable skills we should focus on as educators? 

• What AI tools do you think would be most useful that do not currently exist? 

AI Slop vs Art 

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Mon, Mar 30 2026 at 2:24 PM 

AI slop vs Art.pdf 

In this thought piece, CIA faculty member Cullen Houser (FNDN) welcomes others to critically consider AI use in art practices. As a Nord Center Faculty Fellow, Cullen has been exploring tensions around art production using AI, and shares some culminating thoughts in this article. While he recognizes reasons for being deeply skeptical around AI use related to art practices, Cullen warns against weaponizing critiques of AI use by corporations against the individual artist. Cullen outlines 3 characteristics of AI slop that demonstrate a clear delineation between slop and art: disparagement of human labor, mimicry, and laziness/lack of artistic vision. 

Resist, refuse, or rationalize - Just don't roll over (Furze, 2025) 

Fri, Mar 14 2025 at 12:48 PM 

"This article is a response to the ongoing tensions between resistance and rationalisation: between the educators banishing GenAI from their classrooms, and the ones trying to find ways to coexist with the technology, or even adopt it fully. It is also unapologetically filled with block quotes from everybody’s favourite French philosopher." 

Making Space for Student 'Sorrow' Over AI 

Tue, Feb 18 2025 at 10:00 AM 

This article from Inside Higher Ed addresses concerns of art students particular to AI usage, and encourages "careful, constructive dialogue between professors and their students, including those who are fearful and anxious that AI is cheapening creativity and threatening their job prospects."