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How do you see AI? What metaphors, images, and associations come to mind when you think about its impact on society and visual culture? For the past year, we have been exploring these questions through a series of public workshops that use collage inquiry—an arts-based research method that invites participants to construct meaning through layering and juxtaposition of images. Each workshop has featured a talk by an artist or scholar whose work critically examines AI, addressing issues such as intellectual property, social ethics, privacy, creative authorship, and surveillance. These talks have provided grounding and provocation, after which participants respond visually by creating collages from an array of provided ephemera.
In this workshop, rather than listening to a guest speaker, participants will engage directly in collage-making while learning about our project findings. In doing so, they will experience firsthand how collage inquiry can serve as a tool for reflecting on complex, rapidly evolving issues like AI—where metaphor, symbolism, and image association often reveal insights that elude purely verbal analysis.
Participants will leave with their own visual reflections on AI, strategies for incorporating collage inquiry into their teaching or outreach, and a deeper appreciation of how visual metaphor can open up new ways of understanding technological and cultural change.
