AI & Creativity Summit: New York 2026
On May 14th, 2026, Artist and the Machine hosted the AI & Creativity Summit in New York with Bloomberg as Official Media Partner, bringing the most consequential ideas in AI and Creativity into the room before going on to shape the mainstream zeitgeist.
The day moved across three stages of programming, including Main Stage conversations, Machine Stage demos, and Human Lounge workshops. Alongside, partner activations, podcast tapings, lounges, and conversations gave attendees a choose-your-own-adventure view into how AI is entering creative work across disciplines, formats, and industries.
The program included a recording of Bloomberg’s Everybody’s Business, featuring Matt Zien and Max Chafkin on AI film, creative risk, and the cultural tension around AI slop. Bloomberg also featured the Main Stage session, A Brand Built on Truth: NASA in the Generative Era, with NASA’s David Rager and Bloomberg’s Christina Ruffini. Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, joined Sasha Stiles for a Main Stage conversation on poetry, language, and technology, as well as Kathleen Grace, Chief AI Officer at Lionsgate.
Across the rest of the day, King Willonius took to the Main Stage for a conversation with Adobe on AI-powered storytelling. Bria unveiled Artfair, showing how artist-owned visual identities can scale into licensed brand campaigns. Sessions featured leaders from Spotify, ElevenLabs, FLORA, frog, LTX, Archetype AI, Chess.com, and many more alongside Academy Award-winning artists and creative technologists working at the forefront of creativity.
For both the Artists and the Machines, it offered an early look at the questions, tensions, and possibilities that will go on to define the next chapter of creativity.
June 11, 2026
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.