AI+ART Summer Institute is a three-week residential course at UCLA for high school students to explore the possibilities and impacts of making art with AI software.

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The class is composed of short lectures, discussions, workshops, time to work in class, and feedback sessions. No prior programming or machine learning knowledge is required.

Questions

• How are artists engaging with AI, both as a tool and as a subject?

• What is the potential and what are the implications of AI within the visual arts?

• What AI-enabled tools are available and how do they work? How can I choose among them?

Learning Objectives

• Integrate AI into your existing creative practice, wherever it fits best (ideation, experimentation, pattern-making, performance, text) 

• Explore and apply various modalities of AI across a range of media

• Develop your own unique perspective and criticality towards technology, computation and media

Structure of the Class

• Morning activities: Individual and group warm-up exercises.

• Presentations: Review history of AI in art, references to artists, theorists and literature.

• Discussions: Class discussions about work-in-process and idea development for projects.

• Tutorials: “How-to” and Q&A. 

• Studio: Individual time to work and 1:1s with instructor and teaching assistant. 

• Critique: Group sharing, discussion and feedback.

Assignments

This class is built around three exercises and a final project. Each exercise has an in-class workshop and a discussion about your finished exercise on the day that it’s due.

The institute is taught by professionally trained instructors using the most current software and technology. The institute culminates in a final exhibition and the creation of portfolio-ready work that students may include in their college applications in related fields. Students receive 4 units of college credit.

⭐️ 2025 AI & Art Summer Institute Student Showcase! ⭐️
⭐️ 2024 AI & Art Summer Institute Student Showcase! ⭐️