RISD Debates in AI: Eric Telfort RISD Debates in AI

Eric Telfort was part of Debates in AI first panel, What's Work Got to Do With It. Eric is an illustrator and fine artist who earned his BFA in Illustration from RISD and, after working as a production artist in the video game industry, an MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Telfort has lectured throughout the US and internationally in Zimbabwe, where he was a Visual Arts Initiative artist in residence. In 2019, he received a Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship to explore creativity in poverty and pursue a personal, independent visual novel. He is an associate professor and head of the Illustration department at RISD.
To watch talks from the two-day symposium, head over to AI-Debates.risd.edu. You can also listen to each of them wherever you find your podcasts. Support for the event was from the Divisions of Liberal Arts, Experimental and Foundation Studies, and Architecture & Design, as well as the Fleet Library and the Center for Arts and Language. Thank you to our largest contributor, the Center for Complexity and the RISD 2050 Fund for kicking off this important conversation.

Audio produced by Andrew Grant, Marisa Mazria Katz and Bilal Qureshi
Music: "Imagery" and "Last Night" by Xylo-Ziko

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