2026 Presenting Creative Partner
Welcome to the dawn of a new era for AI & Creativity. We’re honored to welcome Adobe as our returning Presenting Creative Partner across 2026.
Adobe gives everyone, from emerging artists to global brands, everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. They are passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transforming how companies interact with their customers across every screen.
See them onstage and activating at our AI & Creativity Summit in NY in May, and in the meantime explore Adobe Firefly Foundry. Adobe Firefly Foundry enables users to unlock creative precision at enterprise-scale with proprietary, IP-protected generative AI models – responsibly trained on your brand or franchise.
Artist Feature
Alexia Adána is the Forward Deployed Creative Lead at Luma and visual artist whose work explores the intersection of brand storytelling, emerging technology, and culture. Her practice is grounded in the belief that technology can be a powerful force for creative expression and human-centered innovation. Seen here, Bloomchild is an immersive narrative and evolving artistic universe rooted in self-acceptance, empathy, and healing. The trailer offers a first glimpse into a dreamlike world that invites viewers to see their uniqueness as a source of beauty. Alexia takes the stage at our NY Summit for the session “New Brand Imagination” alongside David Rager of NASA, Ari Kuschnir of m ss ng p eces, Craig Elimeliah of Code and Theory, and Ryan Jones of David Yurman.
On the Agenda
Voices of the Impossible: How AI Is Redefining Creative Expression.
What if you could learn, create, and experience content through the voices of icons? In this fireside chat, David Joerg from Chess.com and Taheeb Sonekan from ElevenLabs explore how voice AI is unlocking entirely new creative formats, from training with legendary chess players to reimagining how products teach, engage, and inspire. A look at how creators and companies can now build experiences that were unimaginable just a year ago.
The Art & Algorithm of Scent
How olfactory culture, luxury perfumers, and disruptive technologies such as AI are revolutionizing the consumer experience and defining the future of fragrance artistry. A conversation across the industry – from legacy fragrance houses already integrating AI into their craft, to master perfumers, to the disrupters and cultural voices challenging the status quo – on what happens when algorithms enter the lab, how they change the creative process, and what it all means for the future of scent. Featuring Farah Ahmed of Fragrance Creators Association, Matthieu Befve of Givaudan, Natasha Côté-Mouzannar of IFF, and Teddy Haugan.
Stop Selling AI Content
The photo, the commercial, the deliverable – these are no longer the prize. What clients crave is the unfolding ritual of creation itself. In this new age of Creative, process becomes the product. Which leaves the industry to confront a larger truth: what forms in the wake when the making, not the made, is what clients seek? Featuring Benjamin Benichou of ©3.11LABS and Charlton Roberts of FLORA.
We hope to see you in New York on May 14, 2026, where we will continue to explore the forefront of AI & Creativity together, in-person. We’re down to our last few spots:
If you’re creating something aligned with Artist and the Machine or you’d like to recommend work shaping this space, we’d love to see it for the chance to be featured. Reach out to us at community@artistandthemachine.com.
Til next time,
Artist and the Machine.
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Paige Piskin is an award-winning AI and XR creator, known for pushing the boundaries of digital makeup, character design, and augmented reality experiences. With AR effects generating more than 300 billion impressions, shared 2 billion times, Paige has worked with major brands like Netflix, Bratz, Warner, and Coldplay, bringing immersive storytelling to life. She has also been a guest judge for Netflix, consultant, and 2x hackathon winner, recognized for her innovative work in AI-driven AR experiences. Paige is passionate about blending generative AI with character design, expanding the possibilities of digital self-expression and interactive storytelling.
Claire Silver is an anonymous AI-Collaborative artist that works with oil, acrylic, collage, photography, and different digital mediums to create her work. She often blends the classical style and mythos into her art, collaboratively producing work that feels at once familiar and strange. Her work explores themes of innocence, trauma, the hero’s journey, and how our view of them will change in an increasingly transhumanist future. Claire’s art can be found in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has been at Sotheby’s London and Christie’s New York and in galleries, museums, and festivals all over the world. Featured in the New York Times, WIRED, Fortune, NPR, and countless podcasts, Claire takes every opportunity to explore her unending fascination with AI, fight for visibility for this budding art movement, and wonder at the magnitude of this moment in history. She often feels like a caveman painting fire. Claire is vocal in her belief that with the rise of AI, for the first time, the barrier of skill is swept away and that in this evolving era, taste is the new skill.