Tag: seed grant

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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…

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…

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

PI: Richmond Y. Wong (Georgia Tech) Student Researchers: Soyoun Jang (Georgia Tech), Inha Cha (Georgia Tech) This project seeks for an in-depth understanding on the spatial and cultural dimensions of AI production in Atlanta through the commuting practices of IT and tech workers. Specifically, we will conduct qualitative design research with tech workers in Atlanta…

P.I. : Dov Jacobson Scholars and scientists, artists, programmers and promoters from Atlanta’s game industry and beyondwill meet for two days in April to prepare for the AI-saturated future.We’ll get our hands dirty, digging in to see how AI will transform game craft and game play. And unearthing insights that help our community use this new superpower creatively and ethically.

P.I. : Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, PhD Candidate, Digital Media, Georgia Institute of Technology As record management systems increasingly rely on GenAI to parse and retrieve data, LGBTQIA+ knowledge that is not easily categorized or indexed is left out, resulting in an increasingly narrow representation of queer identities and histories. “Generating Queer Histories” proposes to critically…

P.I. :Lorraine Kowalski Participants will explore the intersection of creativity, community, and AI in this hands-on event hosted by Decatur Makers. The event begins with an AI activity where participants use word prompts to generate visual images. They will then create figures, architecture, and scenes depicting “a day in the life of Greater Atlanta,” contributing…

P.I. :Jiaying Lu, School of Nursing’s Center for Data Science, Emory University; Wei Wu (Co-PI), Department of Religion, Emory University. The popularity of Generative AIs (GenAIs), such as OpenAI chatGPT and Google Gemini, has surged in recent years due to their remarkable capabilities in understanding natural language and assisting humans to accomplish a wide range…

P.I. — Habeeb Kolade, ResearchRound  Through the AIAI seed grant, the Lune AI.Humanities.SocialSciences Fellowship will provide Nigerian graduate and postgraduate students in humanities and social sciences with an exploration of artificial intelligence through assignments, research projects, and coursework in NLP, machine learning, creative computing, learning technologies, and AI ethics. The program will offer remote delivery…

P.I. — Whittney Barth and John Bernau As part of a larger book project (A Canon for Human Flourishing in the Age of AI) our AIAI seed grant will fund the creation of “The People’s Canon for Human Flourishing in the Age of AI.” The People’s Canon will be an online resource compiling responses from members of the…