Unveiling After Hours

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What an incredible day - where do we even begin? Yesterday’s Summit made clear how far the AI and Creativity conversation has moved beyond tools. AI is leaving the screen and entering the studio, set, scent lab, sound booth, writer’s room, archive, brand system, legal department, and human imagination. The medium is becoming physical, social, emotional, and increasingly difficult to separate from creative life.

Summit

Kathleen Grace, Chief AI Officer at Lionsgate, spoke with Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, on AI in entertainment. Bloomberg’s Max Chafkin sat down with Matt Zien on the backlash, curiosity, and creative risk surrounding AI storytelling. David Rager from NASA spoke with Christina Ruffini from Bloomberg on how they are bringing their brand into the generative era. Wes Hopkins from Adobe and King Willonious traced how artists are building with new creative systems, while Viktoria Modesta opened up the frontier of metabodies.

This is just a snapshot of the day. Across every conversation, it was unmistakable that there has never been a more consequential moment for the future of creative industry. AI is changing what can be made, who gets to make it, and how entire fields define creativity. Session recordings coming soon - stay tuned.

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That is why we’re unveiling After Hours, a new virtual AI & Creativity series for the conversations, workshops, and working sessions that deserve more time than a single day together can hold.

Our AI & Creativity Summit is the room where the field’s most consequential artists, technologists, executives, institutions, and builders come together to shape the future of this space. After Hours is how we expand that surface area. It will bring the same caliber of guests together with room for practical exchange, deeper learning, and access to the people defining the next creative era.

Photos

Our first batch of Summit photos has arrived via our partner Air. We’ll continue to add to this folder over the coming days, so feel free to check back. You’re welcome to share on socials, and we’d love for you to tag Artist and the Machine when you do!

Pulse

• Dani’s avatar by Nina Hawkins kicked off the opening remarks: The avatar that debuted at our last AI & Creativity Summit in LA and made a recent appearance in Times Square opened up Main Stage programming.

• Bria AI unveiled “Artfair” on the Main Stage at Summit: Artfair is a creative extension of Bria Create that lets brands and agencies build entire campaigns around a single artist's visual identity, at AI speed and global scale.

• StudioJadu announced the Jadu Pioneer Program: Including 4 time Emmy Award winner Fred Graver, digital storyteller Thom Woodley, futurist filmmaker Taryn O’Neill, and media entrepreneur Ashkan Karbasfrooshan.

• Summit attendee Sami Viitamäki made a vibe coded remix of our agenda: Sami built on the base of our agenda to track live sessions, which was vibe coded with Lovable 🤯 Meta vibe coding on the event floor.

If you’re creating something aligned with Artist and the Machine or you’d like to recommend work shaping this space, we’d love to see it for the chance to be featured. Reach out to us at [email protected].

Til next time,

Artist and the Machine.

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