AI in Art and Design Education – Panel discussion 

Suggested readings

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Panellists short biographies

Elliot Burns 

Elliott Burns is a digital arts curator and co-founder of Off Site Project, a browser-based gallery founded in 2017. His research areas include online curation from Web 1.0 to 3.0 and the video game as an artistic medium. He teaches on computational, net, post-internet and tactical media art practices; and runs classes on digital museology, the history of virtual reality and AI co-cognition. At CSM he has worked on issues surrounding collaborative digital notation and LLM academic misconduct. 

Mark Farid 

Mark Farid is an Artist, Researcher, and Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. He specialises in the intersection of the virtual and physical world, and the effect new technologies have on the individual and their sense of self. Farid’s work embodies hacker ethics, such as a focus on privacy policies, use of surveillance technologies, and campaigning for data privacy and protection. His work forms a critique of social, legal, and political models. 

Roger Tredre 

Roger Tredre is Course Leader of MA Fashion Communication at Central Saint Martins and has taught at CSM since 1999. He was editor-in-chief of online trends service WGSN in the 2000s and worked for The Observer newspaper in the 1990s. 

Tim Sokolow 

Tim is Head of Academic Support at Central Saint Martins. As an artist, he has a long-standing interest in art and technology: his own sculptural practice migrated to 3D computer graphics whilst a student at the Slade, and this continues to be a central part of his practice thirty years later. As a teacher, he has a long-standing interest in digital learning: he has recently published a paper (with his job share colleague Richard Reynolds) on the psychogeography of online teaching and learning in the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education. Tim has been running workshops for staff and students on writing with AI since 2023 and is now developing workshops on using AI to draw. 

Simon Adams 

I am from London but I have been fortunate to have spent time living in Australia, the US, South Korea, Spain and Brazil.  I have worked in the field of ELT (English Language Teaching) in both managerial and teaching positions for almost 30 years, focussing on teaching international HE and FE students as well as clients in various business sectors.  During my 13 years at UAL, I have been an academic English tutor, academic manager and for the last 3 years I have worked as the Academic Lead for Digital Teaching and Learning for the UAL Pre-sessional Programme.