The Summit Recap
What a day! On Thursday we dove deep into creativity’s intersection with the machine, and came out the other side more knowledgeable, more connected and more enlightened. Thank you to all our incredible speakers, sponsors, and attendees. The corridor conversations were as profound as the talks on stage, and we hope you made as many new connections as we did! We’ll share recordings in the coming weeks for those who missed it – we know the FOMO is real but, we got you!
📸 Spot yourself, or the machine.
The Summit photos are here! Relive the day, and see if you can spot yourself with our curated image gallery from the AI & Creativity Summit. Feel free to share, and tag us @artistandthemachine, #artistandthemachine on Instagram and LinkedIn.
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🤖 Summit Hot Takes
Our diverse array of speakers gave some incredible insights into the future of AI & Creativity, from innovation and evolution of the human-machine collaboration, to reflective warnings on directions we should watch out for. Here are some of our favorites from the Summit:
👁️ Key Highlights
It was a packed house…we doubled our expected attendance, and had to max out capacity to get you all in!! (Big thank you 74Wythe 🙂
Renowned artist Claire Silver appeared at the Summit as an avatar, interviewed live by AATM founder Dani Van de Sande.
The activation Mezzanine was buzzing all day. Artist Kevin Peter displayed his interactive artwork from Zerospace, using procedural AI to adapt the storyline of the artwork based on the audience; Openhome helped attendees make their own AI Twins!
Sharon Goldman, Dan Jasnow, Shilpa Bisaria and Artem Petrov debated the future of IP and Copyright in AI.
Harry McCracken from Fast Company Interviewed Runway Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer Alejandro Matamala-Ortiz.
We went down the Meow Wolf Art Collective Rabbit Hole, looking sincerely at how to maximize human-ness and craft in the Age of AI
Andrew Goldstein and Vince Kadlubek (Co-Founder, Chief Vision Officer at Meow Wolf)
We explored the intersection of Public Art, Robotics, and Lucid Dreaming…
Grace Kasten (Pace Capital),
We laughed A LOT during the Innovating Inside the Machine Demos with Amazon, Adobe, and Bloomberg!
🫡 A special thank you to our sponsors…
We could not have done this without you! We can’t think of a better group of intentional industry leaders to partner with for our inaugural AI & Creativity Summit. If you’d like to connect with any of these incredible leaders, hit reply and we can help facilitate an introduction!
AI Audio leader ElevenLabs
World-renowned AI Product Studio & AI Alignment Researcher ae studio
Legendary creative consultancy and design leader frog
Leading AI Solutions legal firm ArentFox Schiff
The bedrock of Media & Entertainment Innovation AWS
AI content production suite Leonardo.ai
The top AI Marketing Cloud Zeta Global
Relationship Management XRM rings.ai
Our incredible venue 74Wythe
our fabulous liquor partner Misguided Spirits
And for those that missed out on our starter kit…
Stay tuned for some big announcements soon!
Til next time,
Dani Van de Sande (Founder) & the Artist and the Machine team.
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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.