DDA500: Creative Practice with AI (Fall 2025)
Course Overview
DDA500 is an advanced studio and seminar investigating artificial intelligence, generative models, autonomous agents, and multi-modal synthesis in contemporary creative practice. The course balances technical mastery (diffusion, agents, MCP, 3D AI) with critical theory (intentionality, cognitive sovereignty, model collapse).
Lectures
- W01: Overview — AI Mental Models & Creative Practice
- W02: Problem Solving — Logic, Prompts, and Authorship
- W03: Diffusion Models — Latent Space & ControlNet
- W05: Agency — Autonomous Agents & Tool Use
- W06: Sound & Image — Multi-Modal Audio Generation
- W07: Video Generation — Temporal Consistency
- W08: 3D AI — NeRFs & Gaussian Splatting
- W09: Ignore Previous Instructions — Adversarial AI & Poisoning
Assignments
- A01: Problem Solving & Critical Dialogue with AI
- A02: Is It Good or Legal Art? — Latent Space & Ethics
- A03: Autonomous Agent or Multi-Modal Prototype
- Final Project: Capstone AI Creative Practice
Readings & Bibliography
A curated bibliography of books, foundational papers, critical essays, and technical references on creative AI and machine aesthetics.