Unveiling After Hours
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What an incredible day – where do we even begin? Yesterday’s Summit made clear how far the AI and Creativity conversation has moved beyond tools. AI is leaving the screen and entering the studio, set, scent lab, sound booth, writer’s room, archive, brand system, legal department, and human imagination. The medium is becoming physical, social, emotional, and increasingly difficult to separate from creative life.
Summit
Kathleen Grace, Chief AI Officer at Lionsgate, spoke with Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, on AI in entertainment. Bloomberg’s Max Chafkin sat down with Matt Zien on the backlash, curiosity, and creative risk surrounding AI storytelling. David Rager from NASA spoke with Christina Ruffini from Bloomberg on how they are bringing their brand into the generative era. Wes Hopkins from Adobe and King Willonious traced how artists are building with new creative systems, while Viktoria Modesta opened up the frontier of metabodies.
This is just a snapshot of the day. Across every conversation, it was unmistakable that there has never been a more consequential moment for the future of creative industry. AI is changing what can be made, who gets to make it, and how entire fields define creativity. Session recordings coming soon – stay tuned.
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That is why we’re unveiling After Hours, a new virtual AI & Creativity series for the conversations, workshops, and working sessions that deserve more time than a single day together can hold.
Our AI & Creativity Summit is the room where the field’s most consequential artists, technologists, executives, institutions, and builders come together to shape the future of this space. After Hours is how we expand that surface area. It will bring the same caliber of guests together with room for practical exchange, deeper learning, and access to the people defining the next creative era.
Photos
Our first batch of Summit photos has arrived via our partner Air. We’ll continue to add to this folder over the coming days, so feel free to check back. You’re welcome to share on socials, and we’d love for you to tag Artist and the Machine when you do!
Pulse
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Dani’s avatar by Nina Hawkins kicked off the opening remarks: The avatar that debuted at our last AI & Creativity Summit in LA and made a recent appearance in Times Square opened up Main Stage programming.
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Bria AI unveiled “Artfair” on the Main Stage at Summit: Artfair is a creative extension of Bria Create that lets brands and agencies build entire campaigns around a single artist’s visual identity, at AI speed and global scale.
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StudioJadu announced the Jadu Pioneer Program: Including 4 time Emmy Award winner Fred Graver, digital storyteller Thom Woodley, futurist filmmaker Taryn O’Neill, and media entrepreneur Ashkan Karbasfrooshan.
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Summit attendee Sami Viitamäki made a vibe coded remix of our agenda: Sami built on the base of our agenda to track live sessions, which was vibe coded with Lovable 🤯 Meta vibe coding on the event floor.
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.