{"682326":{"#nid":"682326","#data":{"type":"news","title":" New Course Broadens Students\u2019 Horizons Using AI","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMingling in the lobby of the Mason Building, a group of engineering students participated in their first art show opening on April 23. Like the hybrid class from which the artwork sprang, the exhibits were a cross between art festival and Capstone projects: drawings, paintings and videos accompanied by detailed informational posters describing the computational processes by which the collaborative final art was made.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETheir artwork, created in collaboration with generative artificial intelligence (AI), was the culmination of a new interdisciplinary course called Art and Generative AI, co-taught by Francesco Fedele, associate professor of civil engineering, and Mark Leibert, a professor of the practice in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFedele and Leibert collaborated on the design of the course in response to call for more AI-based classes in the College of Engineering. \u201cArt and Generative AI\u201d is one of the electives in Georgia Tech\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2024\/04\/starting-summer-students-can-minor-applications-artificial-intelligence-and-machine\u0022\u003Enew minor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning\u003C\/a\u003E, offered in partnership with the College of Engineering and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETaught for the first time in the spring semester, the course explores the intersection of AI technology, art, design, and neuroscience to create innovative synthetic, or generative media for artistic expression. Students learned how to leverage AI algorithms, design principles, and neuroscience insights to generate new forms of visual and auditory art.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/05\/new-course-broadens-students-horizons-using-ai\u0022\u003ERead the full article on the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u0027s website.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA new Georgia Tech course merges art, AI, and neuroscience, empowering students to create innovative generative artworks.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" A new Georgia Tech course merges art, AI, and neuroscience, empowering students to create innovative generative artworks."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2025-05-09 20:13:19","changed_gmt":"2025-05-09 20:15:27","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-05-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677058":{"id":"677058","type":"image","title":"ai-course.jpg","body":null,"created":"1746821656","gmt_created":"2025-05-09 20:14:16","changed":"1746821656","gmt_changed":"2025-05-09 20:14:16","alt":"  Ellen M. Bassett, John Portman Chair and Dean of the Georgia Tech College of Design, center, with Gabe McGuire and Jemma Siegel who are explaining the process behind their project \u201cAlglowrithm\u201d in the Mason lobby on April 23, 2025. Alison Lumpkin (not pictured) was also part of the project  team.","file":{"fid":"260920","name":"ai-course.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/09\/ai-course.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/05\/09\/ai-course.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1096036,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/05\/09\/ai-course.jpg?itok=TURPMyV_"}}},"media_ids":["677058"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/news\/art-and-geometry-exhibition-features-student-art-inspired-einstein-and-picasso","title":"Art and geometry: Exhibition features student art inspired by Einstein and Picasso"},{"url":"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/this-engineering-course-has-students-use-their-brainwaves-to-create-performing-art-208434","title":"This Engineering Course has Students Use Their Brainwaves to Create Performing Art"},{"url":"https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/features\/2023\/07\/georgia-tech-art-ai","title":"Exploring Art and AI in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Hunter\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:m.j.hunter@ce.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Em.j.hunter@ce.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}