Performing AI Ethics explores how artificial intelligence is publicly framed, justified, and normalized through panels, podcasts, and policy conversations. The project combines live performance with deepfaked media, staging interactions between live actors and simulated AI ethics figures to expose how authority, urgency, and moral responsibility are performed.

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PI: Luke Ziegler, PhD (University of West Georgia) Collaborator: Jenna Harte, PhD (University of West Georgia) Since the launch of ChatGPT and AI tools for education (MagicSchoolAI, SchoolAI e.g.), metro Atlanta educators have received varying amounts of support and professional development. Some districts have championed the use of AI tools for personalized learning and resource creation while others have provided minimal guidance or support in navigating this nascent technology in the classroom. This project examines how educators are developing critical AI literacy and how they…

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This work critically addresses the impact of Data Centers on Atlanta’s local environmental, energy, and economic ecologies through arts-based research. We propose to commission three local artists to create textile artworks to communicate the local concerns and impacts of data centers.

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This project explores how artificial intelligence perceives and rematerializes place by reinterpreting the front surface of Stone Mountain, a site shaped by deep geological time and a complex political history. Using generative models whose understanding of place is shaped by fragmented visual data, the work explores how AI often simplifies or misreads culturally layered landscapes.

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Our project will investigateAI education through the lens of material cultures of specific communities in metro Atlanta. We focus on how culture scaffolds critical AI literacy efforts through material practices. We will partner with, Agape Foundation, a local non-profit that works with youth.

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As AI becomes embedded in everyday workplace tools, “AI literacy” is increasingly treated as a baseline requirement for employability. But what actually counts as an AI skill—and who gets to decide?

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This research investigates the human–AI dynamics created by the growing presence of autonomous food-delivery robots along the Atlanta BeltLine. As a major corridor for cyclists and runners, the BeltLine is experiencing increased co-presence between riders and driverless delivery bots whose navigation patterns may introduce new forms of distraction, uncertainty, or perceived risk.

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This project will develop and pilot a humanities-centered AI faculty workshop that reframes artificial intelligence as a tool for interpretation, scaffolding, and student agency—not a shortcut for cognition. Building on our 2025 Associated Colleges of the South (ACS) interdisciplinary AI workshop, this project offers a structured model for interpretation-first prompt engineering that centers the needs of faculty in humanistic disciplines.

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During the Union Army’s occupation of Atlanta at the end of the Civil War in 1864, the photographer George N. Barnard photographed the city before Atlanta was burned. Barnard created a series of famous photographs using a mobile darkroom tent which he moved around the city on a horse-drawn carriage. I will replicating this tent as an AI-enabled camera obscura placed at the exact sites where the photographs were made.

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This digital humanities project documents the lived experiences of Asian LGBTQ+ immigrant and refugee communities in Atlanta. By using queer walking meditation (Trinh, 2020) and guided by Vietnamese Buddhist ethics of compassion, presence, and interbeing, the project gathers 10 oral histories along with participant-created drawings, poems, and symbolic artifacts through 3 sessions

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