Services

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 INNOVATION 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:

  • A shared conceptual language for discussing AI as a cultural and meaning-producing system, not just a technical tool
  • Greater clarity around authorship, responsibility, and creative agency in AI-mediated work
  • The ability to articulate a coherent institutional position on AI that holds up internally and publicly
  • Increased confidence navigating AI-related decisions without defaulting to hype, fear, or compliance checklists

🔹 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:

  • AI literacy
  • Unpack 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.

Teams gain:

  • Clear visibility into implicit assumptions and internal contradictions around AI adoption
  • Stronger alignment between institutional values, everyday practices, and public rhetoric
  • A reflective framework for evaluating AI initiatives before tools, policies, or programs are finalized
  • Shared reference points that support more grounded, productive conversations about AI

🔹 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 the ethics of participation
  • The history of creative AI practices
  • AI pedagogy
  • AI literacy
  • Visit the About page for a sample of past guest lectures and workshops

Audiences come away with:

  • A deeper understanding of AI’s cultural, historical, and ethical implications beyond surface-level discourse
  • New interpretive frameworks for thinking about creativity, participation, and automation
  • Language for discussing AI in ways that resonate with institutional missions and public audiences
  • A reframing of AI from a technical problem to a question of meaning, authorship, and creative platform

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

Participants experience:

  • Hands-on engagement with AI as a creative and interpretive medium rather than only a productivity system
  • Collective experimentation that surfaces ethical and cultural questions through practice and active critical analysis
  • Space for reflection on ambiguity, participation, and ethical responsibility in AI-mediated processes

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
  • Basic and advanced AI literacy (e.g., easing technophobes into the AI landscape in accessible and fun ways; coaching advanced users to use their technical AI skills in new ways)
  • 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

Institutions benefit from:

  • A rare integration of conceptual sensemaking and creative experimentation
  • Deeper insight into how experiential learning informs institutional policy, pedagogy, or public positioning
  • Opportunities for teams to translate creative insights into strategic and pedagogical frameworks
  • A shared experience that bridges theory, practice, and organizational learning around AI

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
  • Artists/filmmakers who wish to use AI to enhance their creativity
  • 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, series, other)
  • Proposed timeline or event context
  • Budget

Details regarding scope, format, and availability are shared upon request.