Teaching Art History with AI

FAIN: DOI-293720-23

University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA 15260-6133)
Alison Langmead (Project Director: February 2023 to present)

A series of convenings among college and university educators and the development of open educational resources concerning the pedagogical use of computational image generation technologies in art history, visual culture, and media studies. 

This proposal requests funding for a series of convenings to create a peer-supported learning community of college/university-level educators who want to integrate a deeper understanding of computational image generation technologies (such as DALL-E 2 or Midjourney) into their teaching practices. Participants will be selected through a nationwide call for participation from those currently teaching in the fields of art history, visual culture, and material culture. To produce as broad an impact as possible, participants will be sought from a highly diverse set of academic and geographic settings. Additionally, the Project Team will produce an openly-accessible website that gathers scholarly information about the dangers and opportunities present at the intersection of computational image generators and the history of human visual artistic production. This website will also describe how this series of convenings was designed and produced as a model for others to use in future.