Making Now and Next: Creative Practice and Worlds to Come

Day Two traces a trajectory from the realities of collaborating with intelligent tools to imagining the futures those tools set in motion. The day moves from questions of craft to questions of consequence, examining how artificial intelligence is transforming creative labor and reshaping our approaches to authorship, aesthetics, and material intelligence, while also considering how the narratives we build around technology shape the systems we inhabit. The conversations ask not only what these tools can do, but what kinds of worlds they help construct.

The day concludes with a collective conversation linking practice to worldbuilding, opening space to reflect on the futures we might choose to cultivate in an increasingly automated world.