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From generating new forms of artistic expression to transforming industry practices, artificial intelligence is redefining the boundaries of creativity. This event brought together creatives from diverse backgrounds and industry experts to discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by AI in the performing and fine arts.
Curator and Featured Speakers:
Dr. Avriel Epps
Dr. Avriel Epps (she/they) is a computational social scientist and a Civic Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cornell University CATLab. Her work, supported by and the National Center on Race and Digital Justice, Roddenberry Fellowship, and The OpEd Project, delves into how bias in predictive technologies affects adolescent racial, gender, and sociopolitical identity development. Focusing on algorithmic bias and fairness, Dr. Epps has spoken at various venues including tech giants like Google and TikTok, and for The US Courts. Her scholarship has not only appeared in academic journals and handbooks but has also reached wider audiences through publications like The Atlantic and the Emmy nominated PBS documentary "TikTok, Boom." Recently, she completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in Education with a concentration in Human Development and will begin her tenure as Assistant Professor of Fair and Responsible Data Science at Rutgers University in Fall of 2025.
Henriette Cramer
Henriette Cramer is the co-founder of PaperMoon.AI, the AI safety startup that combines quantitative, large-scale data with in-depth, qualitative feedback from people to understand both *what* is happening and *why*. Prior, she was Director of Algorithmic Impact and Responsibility at Spotify. Henriette has extensive product and research experience in recommenders, search, (ro)bot, voice and advertising applications. She holds multiple patents, 60+ research publications and a PhD revolving around Trust in AI from the University of Amsterdam. She is based in San Francisco.
Patrisse Cullors
Patrisse Cullors is a New York Times bestselling author, educator, artist, and abolitionist from Los Angeles, CA. She has been on the frontlines of abolitionist movement building with Black Lives Matter, Justice LA, Dignity and Power Now and Reform LA jails. Cullors is also the co-founder of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, the Founding Director of the Social and Environmental Arts MFA program at Prescott College, and the founder of The Center For Art and Abolition. With the mission to invite all of us to grow towards abolition through intergenerational healing work that centers love, collective care, and art, Cullor’s current work and practice focuses on “Abolitionist Aesthetics.” A recipient of numerous awards for her art and activism, her work has been featured throughout Los Angeles and across the globe.
John Lopez
John Lopez started his career covering entertainment and the arts for Grantland, Vanity Fair and Business Week among others. He was an associate producer on Hossein Amini’s adaptation of The Two Faces of January and has written for Paramount +’s Strange Angel, Netflix’s Seven Seconds and Amazon's The Terminal List. He participated as a member of the Writers Guild of America's AI working group in the run up to their 2023 contraction negotiations.
