Artificial Intelligence and its Impacts on Creative Industries

“A panel discussion on AI explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and the arts featuring experts from technology, creative, and legal sectors discussing the impact of AI on creative processes, the potential for AI to enhance or replace human creativity, ethical and legal considerations around AI-generated art, and the role of AI in shaping the future of the creative industries. The discussion would offer insights and perspectives on the opportunities and challenges presented by the integration of AI and creative practices.”

— ChatGPT, AI (with human edits)

The panel is moderated by Neil Ramsay, Research Associate at RA+DI, with an introduction by Dr. Rebecca Friedman, director of the FIU Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab.

About the Speakers

Carl-Philippe Juste and his politically active family fled Haiti in 1965, eventually settling in Miami’s Haitian community. Since 1991, he has worked as an award-winning photojournalist for the Miami Herald. Juste has covered national and international stories for the Herald, including assignments in Haiti, Cuba, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq. As part of his ongoing independent work, in 1998, Juste co-founded Iris Photo Collective. In 2016, Juste won a prestigious Knight Arts Challenge grant to complete Havana, Haiti: Two Cultures, One Community, a book and exhibit of photographs and essays about Cubans’ and Haitians’ lives and shared humanity, opened IPC ArtSpace in 2019 to further engage the public with the arts, and won the Oolite Arts’ “The Ellies” in 2019 and 2021.

https://irisphotocollective.com/

https://www.instagram.com/ipcartspace/

https://linktr.ee/cpjuste

John Stuart AIA is an innovator, designer, registered architect, and a resident of Miami Beach, where he has served on the Historic Preservation Board. He has also served on the Board of Governors for the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce on the Biscayne Bay Shoreline Committee for Miami Dade County. He has been involved in collaborative research projects funded by Van Alen Institute, The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Science Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Knight Foundation, and The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Stuart has lectured and taught widely in the United States on technology, architectural history, design, urbanism, innovation and identity. Stuart’s books include: The Gray Cloth, Paul Scheerbart’s Novel on Glass Architecture (MIT Press); Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York (W. W. Norton, with Jewel Stern), and The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy and Community Building, 1933-1940 (University Press of Florida, with John F. Stack, Jr.) which won the Silver Medal Book Award. He has lectured and taught widely on technology, architecture, design, urbanism, innovation and identity, and at the Miami Beach Urban Studios is currently working on projects that point to new directions in interdisciplinary innovation and research that engage music, design, art and environmental sciences.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnstuartarchitecture/

https://twitter.com/jstuartFIUMBUS

Max Levine is an attorney, investor, and entrepreneur in South Florida. He earned his Juris Doctorate cum laude from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and his LL.M. in taxation from the NYU School of Law Graduate Tax Program. Max had the honor of serving as an Attorney Advisor to the Honorable Juan F. Vasquez, a presidentially-appointed judge of the United States Tax Court in Washington, DC. After working at a large law firm advising Fortune 500 companies and international entertainers on tax matters, he founded and helmed a non-law business, which he grew and sold to a private equity group in early 2022. His law firm, the Law Offices of Max Levine, P.A., advises small businesses, focusing on creative entrepreneurs and copyright issues. He is also a Courtesy Research Associate at the Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator.

https://www.maxlevinelaw.com/

https://www.instagram.com/maxlevinelaw/

Lara Garcia is a Senior majoring in Computer Engineering, with concentrations in Big Data & Artificial Intelligence and Data Systems Software. She’s passionate about combining human-centered design with data science to create social impact, and has worked in the entrepreneurship, research, and philanthropy space throughout her college career. Her journey started as a student leader at StartUP FIU, and then volunteered as an undergraduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab to strategically deploy mobile health clinics in hard-to-reach communities. Most recently, she spent the summer as a data science intern at Knight Foundation, a philanthropic organization with a $3 billion dollar endowment focused on helping communities all over the US, including Miami.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-garcia-padron/

https://news.fiu.edu/2022/engineering-student-uses-data-to-solve-big-picture-problems

Moderator & Introductions

Neil Ramsay, Research Associate, Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator

Dr. Rebecca Friedman, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab