ProArts FACULTY DEVELOPMENT Session
AI and the Arts: Building Institutional Approaches for a Changing Landscape
Friday, November 7th from 1:30-3:00 PM
Boston Arts Academy
174 Ipswich St., Boston MA 02215
Attend in-person OR via Zoom livestream
This session will focus on conversation around how creativity and authorship are being reshaped by AI. Are future artists, including those currently in middle or high school, experimenting with distributed authorship? Are GenAIs being treated as tools, or as partners? These questions and more will be examined in conversation by our panelists, following which breakout rooms will be formed to facilitate further conversations amongst our attendees.
1:30-2:20 - Panel discussion | Moderated by Abraham Evensen Tena, Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2:25-3:00 - Facilitated breakout room discussions (only available to in-person attendees)
This event is open to all Boston Arts Academy and ProArts faculty and staff, as well as faculty members from Colleges of the Fenway.
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ABRAHAM EVENSEN TENA
Associate Professor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Moderator
Abraham Evensen Tena is an artist and game designer. He specializes in character design, game design, and concept art for anything animated. Abe has been producing artwork for games since 2010, created illustrations for two childrens’ books, and been featured in the Boston Magazine website for his urban sketching. For the last five years he has worked for Popotropica, a popular online virtual world for kids. He also teaches Figure Drawing, Character Design, and Media Techniques at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the Illustration department. He holds a BFA from MassArt where he has also received the Calvin Burnett Award for exceptional achievement.
SINDHUMATHI REVULURI
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies, Berklee; Panelist
Sindhumathi Revuluri oversees graduate programs at Berklee, including Berklee NYC, Berklee Valencia, and Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She works closely with executive directors, deans, and program directors to ensure a meaningful, innovative, and high-quality graduate experience across the institution. As part of the Academic Affairs leadership team, she also collaborates on curriculum, new programs, academic policy, assessment, and academic strategy at the institution.
PELIN KIVRAK
Assistant Professor, Emerson College; Panelist
Pelin Kivrak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature & Publishing at Emerson College. She teaches courses on global literature, literary theory, the history of the novel, cultural translation, and the ethics of emerging technologies. Trained as a comparatist, she works across literature, philosophy, film, and the visual arts, with a particular interest in how contemporary narratives and media forms negotiate responsibility and generate new chronotopes and aesthetic strategies that unsettle inherited paradigms of representation.
KURT RALSKE
Professor of the Practice, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University; Panelist
Kurt Ralske's video installations, films, sound art, and performances enact a dialogue with history: an exploration of the past that proposes a new view of the future. His projects utilize technology as a means of research and criticism. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the 2009 Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Kurt is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship, and received First Prize at the Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin in 2003. Kurt programmed and co-designed the 9-channel video installation that is permanently in the lobby of the MoMA in NYC. He is also the author/programmer of Auvi, a popular video software environment in use by artists in 22 countries. A book of his images and texts, Rediscoving German Futurism 1920-1929 (co-authored with Miriam Atkin), was published in 2013.