2024 Preconference

Thursday November 21, 2024 10 AM-4 PM
DoubleTreee Hotel, Binghamton, NY

Learn about the evolving process of prompt engineering and synthesizing images with other patterns to create a new aesthetic vocabulary. With algorithms and machine learning as tools, participants will explore new ways of working and creating. Ethics and bias issues will also be discussed.

Tentative Agends*
9:00-10:00 AM—Coffee and Check-in
10 AM—Introduction 
10:15 AM-12 PM—Instruction and Hands-On Work
12-1 PM—Lunch (provided)
1-3:30 PM—Instruction and Hands-On Work
3:30-4:00 PM—Questions, Thoughts, Ideas, Next Steps
* timeline subject to change

Registration fee includes morning coffee and lunch with all gratuities + CTLE certificate for 5 hours
$95 Member/District Member
$80 Member Student, Retired, Unemployed 
$145 Non-Member

Space is limited to 35 participants.
Deadline to Register is November 1, 2024

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Dr. Nettrice R. Gaskins is an African American digital artist, academic, cultural critic and advocate of STEAM fields. In her work she explores "techno-vernacular creativity" and Afrofuturism.

Dr. Gaskins teaches, writes, "fabs”, and makes art using algorithms and machine learning. She has taught multimedia, visual art, and computer science with high school students. She earned a BFA in Computer Graphics with Honors from Pratt Institute in 1992 and an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. She received a doctorate in Digital Media from Georgia Tech in 2014. Currently, Dr. Gaskins is a 2021 Ford Global Fellow and the assistant director of the Lesley STEAM Learning Lab at Lesley University. She is an advisory board member for the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Her first full-length book, Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation is available through The MIT Press. Gaskins' AI-generated artworks can be viewed in journals, magazines, museums, and on the Web. Her series of 'featured futurist' portraits are on view at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building through early July 2022.

Gaskins served as Board President of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (The Alliance) and she was on the board of the Community Technology Centers Network (CTCNet) and Artisan’s Asylum.