How it works
Each Sunday from Oct 16, 2011 a new set of video lectures will go online at 9am GMT. The lectures will deal with the topics that correspond to the topics for the proceeding week lectures for Stanford Intro to AI. Each week’s videos will have one or two short exercises. Most weeks will have just one or two short videos (7-10 minutes) but the first Sunday Oct 16th will be longer so we can set a foundation to build the rest of the project. In addition, the course will create two collaborative art works for mid-term and final. (see online syllabus) or  Syllabus for Introduction to Artistic Intelligence (pdf)
Independent of coursework is AI Raw. This is a place set aside for the personal stories. We are over 130,00 people from every country of the world – so many stories and every one is unique. Find the gems in our varied history, backgrounds and experiences. Tell us your story and give us the raw diamond of your own experience - anonymously if you choose…
Getting Started
1. Setting your Avatar
As a project about the arts and creativity your avatar is defines your artistic identity in a large group. If you don’t want to use a photo - think about an another image, graphic or photo that speaks for you. Be as abstract or as literal as you like.
How to change your avatar…Â
2. Creating your “artistic identity”
If you feel comfortable with using your real name and a photo of yourself – great! But take a moment to think if perhaps, Mark Twain, Braveheart, Le Corbusier, Bob Dylan, Lewis Carroll, Bono and Titian were all on to something. Sometimes a pseudonym or “nom de plume” can be liberating. Look at the name in your profile and decide if you want to change it in any way. This won’t change your user name or your password but this name will be visible while the your real name can remain as private or public as you like.
How to change your profile
3. Choosing your path
Introduction to Artistic Intelligence is about exploring your own innate creativity whether you are already a professional artist or feel like “I’m not the artistic type.” However artistic intelligence is best understood by experiencing it directly. There are many equally valid ways to experiment with your Artistic Intelligence. Part of this project is to create a large group collaborative performance artwork together. We will create that performance artwork by turning our actions into signs. A large part of turning everyday actions into signs is declaring our actions in advance. Which path works for you will depend on an honest look at your time, goals and your own attitudes about both contemporary art and your artistic intelligence. To really experience your own “artistic intelligence” you must choose a path. If you don’t choose a path you are audience rather than artist.  You can choose beforehand, but it might work better to wait until after the first week’s lectures to decide.
This project has three possible paths – MAKER, OBSERVER, and CONTROL
Learn more about the paths….
I am taking the other other AI course (Stanford) and was really excited and interested when you offered this artistic intelligence course. I am really keen to get going, and certainly have an idea what you are talking about when you say the pain of getting started.
I get what you are trying to do with the Sunday morning lecture and the short Monday midnight deadline. But have you thought of the consequences of time zone in this setup? I am in Australia, so for me your lectures show up at 8PM Sunday night, then I have until 11AM Tuesday to do the assignments… So Sunday night, when I have to work the next day, and Monday evening after a day at work. I can see it working if I could give my time on the Sunday and make final strokes on Monday night, but as it is I am feeling a little bit hard done by.
As a suggested solution, would it be possible to perhaps get the videos posted by midnight Saturday? That would at least give us antipodeans from Sunday brunchtime to be artistically intelligent.
David you are so right. I included a new field in your profile so that you can indicate what time zone you are in so you won’t be penalize just for your location.