These sessions are hands-on environments for leaders and teams on one hand, and artists and poets on the other, to engage directly with emerging AI tools and ways of thinking. We explore creative strategy, ethical design, and how to build with attention. The goal is literacy, alignment, and a renewed sense of agency in a shifting technological landscape.
Classrooms
SchoolsWeirding AI
Invites writers and technologists to collaborate unconventionally with machines. The session trained tiny language models on personal archives, explored prompt manipulation, and examined "plagiarism as ars poetica," blending uncreative writing approaches with AI's predictive capabilities.
Memory Poetics
Wove together philosophy and code, examining how memory gets encoded in tools. Participants explored poetic interface design and artistic resistance to algorithmic encoding, hosted as a guest lecture within Berkeley's digital narrative class.
Time Capsule in 3 Acts
A workshop-performance unfolding in three movements: voice, practice, and service. Participants responded to poetic prompts from Artaud, Warhol, and Rimbaud, uploading fragments into a digital "time capsule." Asked: "what does your attention remember?"
Creative Communities
ArtistsStrange Choirs
Artists and technologists co-composed with machines by training tiny language models on personal archives, queering prompt chains, and creating "a strange digital choir, a ritual of poetic misbehavior, collective voice, and glitch as structure."
AI x Artist Studio
Panel exploring how AI reshapes creative process. Shared perspective that AI "doesn't just assist: It distorts, surprises, and co-authors," examining the studio as staging ground for unintended collaboration.
Algorithm Embrace
Performance-workshop on submission aesthetics in AI. Explored the concept of machines consuming us lovingly until distinction between prompt and poem vanishes, asking: "when the machine loves us back, what do we become?"
Corporations
TeamsPredictive Bodies
Invited artist talk exploring how poetic training data shifts tone and model fine-tuning for strangeness. Included live demonstrations of model behavior and "language as choreography."
Weirding AI
Hands-on workshop building poetic interaction design, creating small systems blurring prompt-and-prayer boundaries using browser-based embeddings while discussing ritual, randomness, and relevance in AI.
Plagiarism Poetica
Systems workshop for creative technologists exploring generative recombination and remix as revelation, drawing from Kenneth Goldsmith and language models, questioning whether "plagiarism is the point."