Category: AI for Creatives
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Agent Orchestrators, Creative Insurgents & The New Stack
A field guide for film, animation, and creative workers learning to orchestrate AI systems without surrendering taste, judgment, or authorship.
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The AI Mindset: Adapting to the New Creative Paradigm
A field note on the AI mindset: thinking with machines without surrendering taste, agency, or the human weirdness that makes the work worth doing.
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Make Culture, Not Content
Generative engines now spill out adequate everything. Your value is shifting from production to selection, orchestration, and meaning-making — a field manual.
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Why Judgment Beats “Creativity” in the AI Era
Generation has been commoditized. Selection hasn’t. The DJs figured this out in the ’80s — taste is the moat.
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Both Hands Full
This piece is for creatives who feel two things at once: anger about the non-consensual training mess, and curiosity about what these tools can do inside a real practice. I’m not selling “embrace” or “resist.” I’m arguing for both hands full: left hand holds critique (consent, labor, dependency), right hand holds agency (workflows that actually…
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BC’s AI Ecosystem: A Mycelial Network of Creation
For 15 months, I’ve been mapping a network of creators and builders creating AI on their own terms. From basement studios in East Van to Indigenous tech labs on unceded territories, this isn’t Silicon Valley’s AI revolution. It’s messier, more alive, and probably what the future actually looks like.
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AlphaPrism: Post-Photographic Cybernetic Portraiture
Step into latent space with Autolume—a project that transforms analog nostalgia into dynamic AI-driven art, redefining identity and creativity one portrait at a time.
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Kicking Ass in 2025: A Techartist’s Guide to Creative Survival
Join me as I share firsthand experiences from the frontlines of this creative revolution. Discover how the synergy of human intuition and machine precision is not just amplifying our capabilities but also challenging our very identities. What happens when AI can generate a thousand ideas, but only you can tell which ones matter?
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AI Upgrade for Creatives – Professor Peter and KK the Pirate King
Step into the future with me, your rebel guide, where we’ll harness AI to supercharge your creative process. This isn’t about following rules—it’s about breaking them, and discovering the tools that’ll set your creativity on fire.
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LLMs and Beyond: Reframing the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Are we really prepared for the AI-driven future? Discover why current narratives fall short and what conversations we should be having about LLMs, digital equality, and the future of human creativity in an AI-augmented world.
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AI is Not Your Friend: Why We Need to Rethink Our Relationship with Artificial Intelligence
Morten Rand-Hendriksen shatters the AI illusion, urging us to stop anthropomorphizing technology and start seeing it for what it truly is: a tool, not a digital companion. His eye-opening critique exposes the corporate hype and calls for a more realistic, ethical approach to AI.
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The Cyborg Art of Autolume: When AI Meets the Human Lens
I’ve partnered with the visionaries at SFU’s Metacreation Lab, who developed the groundbreaking open-source AI tool Autolume – redefining creativity as we know it. By fusing my analog photography archive with their cutting-edge generative models that merge human and machine subjectivities, Autolume births ontological wormholes rewiring our perceptual operating systems.
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Building Community: Elevating the Ecosystem Panel at Vancouver Startup Week
Vancouver’s reputation for perpetual drizzle doesn’t exactly scream “hotbed of entrepreneurship.” But at a recent Vancouver Startup Week panel, a surprising theme emerged – our city’s vibrant diversity and inclusive spirit may be the secret ingredients for cultivating a thriving startup ecosystem to rival Silicon Valley.
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Future Hackers: Vancouver’s Startup Ecosystem
Let’s double down on fostering a culture where the underdogs, the dreamers, and the disruptors can all find their place. Together, we can forge a startup landscape that’s not only supportive but also unstoppable.
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The Metacreative Code: Philippe Pasquier’s Remix of AI and Creative Arts
Mind. Melded. Imagine an AI not just assisting your creative flow, but essentially becoming your creative partner – riffing with you in real-time to generate entirely new worlds of art, music and storytelling possibility. That’s the reality remix Philippe Pasquier is conducting…
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AI Mindset Keynote at Innovate West 2024 in Vancouver
Ever wondered what happens when you mix cyberpunk sass with cutting-edge AI? Kris Krug’s escapades at Innovate West are your ticket to a future where creativity and code collide spectacularly.
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The Creative Disruption: AI Crashes the Art Party
Watch as AI takes on the old masters and tries not to short-circuit. From digital brush strokes to existential musings, see if tech can really tickle the ivories of the art world.