Thursday, April 11
Coffee/Tea Light Breakfast
Torpedo Factory Art Center Overlook
Welcome
Torpedo Factory Art Center Overlook
Discussion of agenda & goals/objectives/hopes for the summit
Opening Presentations
Torpedo Factory Art Center, Overlook
Heidi Boisvert, University of Florida
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, University of Maryland
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Carnegie Mellon University
Coffee Break
Creative Practices
Breakout Rooms and Overlook
Lightning talks followed by working discussion and organization of output.
There will be 3 parallel sessions on visual arts and design, performing arts and music, and creative writing.
Networking Lunch
Overlook
Intra- and Inter-Institutional and Organizational Practices
Breakout Rooms and Overlook
Lightning talks followed by working discussion and organization of output.
There will be 3 parallel sessions on visual arts and design, performing arts and music, and creative writing.
Coffee and Tea Break
Overlook
Share Out
Overlook
Closing Summary Conversation with Moderators
Overlook
Notes on venue & logistics for Day 2 at National Academy of Sciences
Reception and Concert
Grand Hall.
Day ends at 6:45pm.
Friday, April 12
Coffee/Tea/Light Breakfast
Gallery
Welcome
Meeting Room
Margaret Salazar-Porzio, Deputy Director, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
J.D. Talasek, Director, Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences
Maryrose Flanigan (a2ru), Benjamin Knapp (Virginia Tech), Daragh Byrne (Carnegie Mellon University), Aaron Knochel (Penn State)
Surveying the Landscape & Setting the Tone with the Washington Post
Meeting Room
Getting the “public” context/perspective from Yan Wu, News Developer, Washington Post
Coffee/Tea Break
Gallery
Practice and Leadership
Meeting Room
Perspectives from working groups and experiments in Arts and AI from a2ru network.
Lunch
Gallery
Industry Perspectives
Meeting Room
Domhnaill Hernon, Global Metaverse Labs Lead, EY
Jillian Arnold, IATSE AI Negotiations Subcommittee Chair
Uma Jayaram, Global Head of PAIR, Electronic Arts
Andrew Kim, Design Research Director North America, WorkSpace Futures, Steelcase
Funders’ Perspectives
Meeting Room
Jax Deluca, Media Arts Director, Visual Arts Division, National Endowment for the Arts
Allyson Kennedy, Program Director, Computer and Network Systems, National Science Foundation
Marc N. Ruppel, Senior Program Officer, Public Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities
Coffee/Tea Break
Gallery
Policy: Discussion of Next Steps Across the Nation
Meeting Room
Building towards inter-institutional connections and field-making synthesis from each of the panels.
Summary and Closing
Meeting Room
Day ends at 5:00pm.