ExpressiveAI.net is a research-driven platform dedicated to understanding how artificial intelligence reshapes authorship, cultural meaning, and institutional optimization. Rather than focusing on just the technical aspects, ExpressiveAI.net examines AI as a cultural system that mediates creativity, archives, public discourse, and cultural identity across art, media, and knowledge institutions. We curate critical perspectives, historical archives, case studies, and interpretive frameworks that open alternative genealogies of AI creativity and mediation. We foreground questions of meaning, authorship, memory, and cultural traditions — domains that matter for organizations navigating AI beyond technical toolkits and compliance checklists.
In an era when AI is often purely framed as a technology-oriented domain, ExpressiveAI.net offers a cultural and interpretive lens that helps organizations articulate why and how AI matters to their mission, not just what tools to use. This analytical depth is what institutional audiences invest in and what differentiates serious engagement from commodified impersonal training. Our work supports teams, individuals, and institutions in developing shared frameworks, language, strategies, and clarityaround AI’s role in their organizational context, helping them articulate responsible and unique approaches.
Visit the About page for our founder, Marina Hassapopoulou’s, experience and the site’s history. Scroll down for a sample of what we offer. Contact: mh193[at]nyu[dot]edu
Custom Services:
🔹 Human-Centered AI: Strategic Sensemaking Workshops
A facilitation-based workshop that helps teams move from tool-centric questions to questions of meaning and interpretative frameworks. Rather than focusing on how to technically use AI, this session examines AI as a cultural system that shapes authorship, narrative, and institutional legitimacy.
Focus areas may include:
- Authorship, agency, and responsibility in AI contexts
- How AI reshapes institutional narratives and public positioning
- Reconciling the tensions between automation, creativity, and meaning
- Finding and defining your unique position within the AI landscape
Format
- 90-minute workshop (remote or in person)
- Discussion-driven and case-based
- Designed for institutional teams, leadership groups, or cross-functional units
Participants leave with clearer internal alignment and defensible language for articulating their organization’s relationship to AI internally and publicly.
🔹 Institutional Alignment & Reflection Sessions
Custom sessions designed for organizations that need deeper internal clarity before adopting tools, policies, or public positions around AI.
These engagements help teams:
- Surface unspoken assumptions about AI and resolve ethical dilemmas
- Identify points of friction or contradiction across departments
- Clarify institutional values in relation to automation and creativity
- Align internal practice with external communication and missions statements
These sessions are particularly well suited to leadership teams, curatorial or strategy groups, faculty collectives, and cross-departmental initiatives.
🔹 Invited Talks & Institutional Briefings
ExpressiveAI.net offers invited talks and sessions tailored to institutional audiences, conferences, retreats, festivals, and internal convenings. These are interpretive sessions that combine cultural analysis, historical context, and strategic reflection.
Common themes include:
- AI and authorship in creative and cultural work
- AI, archives, and cultural memory
- Participatory media, automation, and responsibility
- Institutional narratives and public trust in AI
Creative & Participatory Workshops
🔹 Creative AI Workshops for Cultural & Educational Contexts
Hands-on, conceptually grounded workshops designed for artists, educators, students, and creative teams interested in exploring AI as a creative and cultural medium and as a productivity tool.
These workshops emphasize experimentation, collaboration, and critical reflection, often drawing inspiration from historical media practices, participatory art, and collective creation.
Formats may include:
- Creative AI exercises inspired by Surrealist techniques and experimental art practices
- Collaborative image-, text-, and video-based experimentation
- Explorations of authorship, agency, and ambiguity in generative systems
- Group reflection on ethics, creativity, and meaning
Creative workshops can be adapted for classrooms, cultural institutions, festivals, and public programs.
🔹 Custom Hybrid Workshops (Creative + Institutional)
In some contexts, ExpressiveAI offers hybrid workshop formats that combine institutional sensemaking with creative experimentation.
These sessions allow teams and individuals to:
- Think through AI conceptually and strategically
- Easy-to-use AI tools and more general/targeted easy-to-use digital tools workshops for teaching, research, and/or creativity
- Explore new creative avenues through AI-assisted practice
- Get unstuck with AI: new ways to fuel your own creativity with AI tools
- Reflect on how experimentation informs policy, pedagogy, and/or public positioning
Hybrid formats are especially effective for institutions seeking to bridge theory, practice, and organizational learning.
We Work with:
- Cultural institutions and museums
- Media and creative organizations
- Academic and research institutions
- Foundations and mission-driven organizations
- Design studios, labs, and collectives with public-facing work
- Open to other group, individual, and institutional collaborations
Inquiries & Service Requests:
For workshop inquiries, invited sessions, and institutional collaborations, please contact:
📧 mh193[at]nyu[dot]edu
When reaching out, it is helpful to include:
- Organization or institution name
- Intended audience (e.g., leadership, faculty, students, creative team)
- Desired format (institutional workshop, creative workshop, invited talk, curation, other)
- Proposed timeline or event context
Details regarding scope, format, and availability are shared upon request.
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