New Course Broadens Students’ Horizons Using AI
Posted May 7, 2025
Mingling in the lobby of the Mason Building, a group of engineering students participated in their first art show opening on April 23. Like the hybrid class from which the artwork sprang, the exhibits were a cross between art festival and Capstone projects: drawings, paintings and videos accompanied by detailed informational posters describing the computational processes by which the collaborative final art was made.
Their artwork, created in collaboration with generative artificial intelligence (AI), was the culmination of a new interdisciplinary course called Art and Generative AI, co-taught by Francesco Fedele, associate professor of civil engineering, and Mark Leibert, a professor of the practice in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication.
Fedele and Leibert collaborated on the design of the course in response to call for more AI-based classes in the College of Engineering. “Art and Generative AI” is one of the electives in Georgia Tech’s new minor in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, offered in partnership with the College of Engineering and the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Taught for the first time in the spring semester, the course explores the intersection of AI technology, art, design, and neuroscience to create innovative synthetic, or generative media for artistic expression. Students learned how to leverage AI algorithms, design principles, and neuroscience insights to generate new forms of visual and auditory art.
Read the full article on the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's website.
