Generative AI and Creative Practice Research

How are researchers reimagining creativity in the age of algorithms? This panel assembles leading RMIT researchers to explore the opportunities and challenges of working with machine learning as a tool, collaborator, and provocateur. From questions of authorship, originality and ethics to the transformation of artistic processes and methods of inquiry, speakers will consider how generative AI is reshaping their research-led creative practice.

CHAIR

Professor Daniel Palmer leads art history and theory in the School of Art and is Chair of PRS Australia. Known for his writing on photography, digital media and contemporary art, Daniel’s books include Dystopian and Utopian Impulses in Art Making: The World We Want, edited with Grace McQuilten (Intellect, 2023); Photography and Collaboration: From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing (Bloomsbury 2017); and Digital Light (Open Humanities Press, 2015), edited with Sean Cubitt and Nathaniel Tkac.

PANEL

Professor Alissa Andrasek is an architect and design scientist pioneering AI-driven design synthesis, advanced fabrication, and systems thinking for the built environment. Her work integrates discretisation and complexity science into architectural workflows, enabling high-resolution material and spatial intelligence attuned to planetary-scale complexity. Previously Director of an award-winning program in computational architecture and Wonderlab research group at UCL’s Bartlett, she has also taught at the Architectural Association, Columbia University, and the European Graduate School. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally, including at the 2025 Venice Biennale in the Intelligens exhibition, Centre Pompidou, ZKM, NGV, and the New Museum in New York.

Dr Daniel Binns is a tinkerer-theorist exploring how emerging technologies reshape storytelling and media cultures. His research and creative practice focus on synthetic media, critical AI literacies, and glitch-based methods of creative engagement. He is the author of The Hollywood War Film (2017), Material Media-Making in the Digital Age (2021), and co-editor of Confronting the Climate Crisis: Activism, Technology and Ecoaesthetics (2025). His films and experimental works — including the award-winning AI short The Technician — have screened internationally. He is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and in a recent article in The Conversation developed the concept of ‘The Slopocene’ to describe our current moment of AI overproduction.

Kate Geck is a digital artist working with textiles, animation, machine learning, augmented reality and the internet. Her practice tends to the connections between humans and technology, exploring ways to materialise the digital. Kate’s recent work explores what she calls a ‘textillic’ approach to creative practice with machine learning to examine how interconnection, materiality and shared agency might become foregrounded in exchanges between human and machine intelligences. She has exhibited in Australia and overseas, with her most recent Experimenta commission touring Australia from 2025-27. In 2024 Kate co-authored the report ‘Generative AI in Design Education’ with Emma Luke, supported by a Design Thinking Grant from the Alastair Swayn Foundation.

Dr Rebecca Najdowski is an artist-researcher exploring how we visualise and conceptualise nature and climate change through imaging technologies. Through experimental approaches to photographic media – spanning analogue experimentation, 3D photogrammetry, and generative AI – Rebecca’s creative research reconfigures how we sense and understand the entanglements between technology and the more-than-human world. Her work has been presented internationally, including at the Museum of Australian Photography (Australia) and the Belfast Photo Festival (Northern Ireland). Her monograph Ambient Pressure was published in 2023, and she recently co-edited Confronting the Climate Crisis: Activism, Technology and Ecoaesthetics with Daniel Binns.

Dr Joel Stern is a researcher, curator, and artist whose work explores how practices of sound and listening shape contemporary social, political, and aesthetic worlds. His practice spans experimental music, art, and film, often probing the entanglements of media and technology. From 2013–2022, he was Artistic Director of the pioneering Australian organisation Liquid Architecture. In 2020, with Sean Dockray and James Parker, he co-founded Machine Listening, a critical platform for collaborative research and artistic experimentation focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning. His recent projects include co-curating Signal to Noise at the National Communication Museum with Emily Siddons and Eryk Salvaggio.

Access
This session will be recorded but not live-streamed.
The Building 100, Level 10 spaces are accessible via lifts from the street-level entry located at the corner of Victoria & Swanston Streets.