Two MAM '26 grads were featuring their Entrepreneurial Skills at CMU’s AI Ventures Studio Demo Day last Thursday.
Tracy Lee Stum’s Anamorphic Go Transforms any floor into a traffic stopping visitor’s experience. See how powerful today’s immersive tech have become in reshaping public engagement and spatial storytelling!
Oren Cohen's OCMusicals allows writes to use AI to help investors see the creator’s vision. The new way to pitch! Ideas are being communicated through experience! #artsmanagement #cmu #studentwork #immersivetech #artificialintelligence
You think you’re in control in VR. You’re not. 👀
Eric Williams has been making cinematic VR for nearly a decade and he’ll tell you the audience is never really choosing where to look. Through a technique called “audio swing”, he can guide your attention exactly where he wants it. You’ll swear it was your idea. 🎧
🎙️And that’s just one reason why people walk out of VR experiences saying “remember when we were on that bridge” instead of “remember that scene on the bridge.”
Recorded at the @sona.cmu.festival at @carnegiemellon . Eric is the cinematic VR lead at @ougridlab at @ohio.university . Full episode on amt-lab.org. 🔗Link in bio.
#immersivestorytelling #cinematicvr #360video #spatialaudio #virtualreality
The entertainment industry loves AR for games. But what about stories? 🎬
Animator, creative technologist, and CMU Heinz grad student Amy (@amybo.bamy , MEIM @meimprogram ) gave a talk at the SONA Immersive Storytelling Festival (@sona.cmu.festival ) breaking down where augmented reality is falling short in storytelling, and why the narrative gap is the biggest opportunity no one is talking about.
Catch a glimpse of her in-development animated series Monsters & Minstrels over at @wip_theband .
Explore more of our podcast episodes at amt-lab.org. Link in bio.
#artpodcast #augmentedreality #immersivestorytelling #animationindustry #creativetech
🎙️ Last week at the SONA Immersive Storytelling Festival @sona.cmu.festival , Amy gave a solo talk about Monsters & Minstrels (@wip_theband ), her animated series that uses AR as part of how the story actually works.
She walked us through the whole creative process: from the first animatic to rigging Sam in 3D to the Unity AR build she‘s putting together with CMU programmers.
📖 Amy’s full piece is already up on amt-lab.org, and we‘ll be sharing more soon.
✨ By @amybo.bamy · MEIM @meimprogram
#immersivestorytelling #animation #augmentedreality #xr #animatedseries
Selling tickets is just the byproduct. The real mission? Bringing people together through shared experiences. 🎟
Zachary Collins (@zacharycollins ) started @luduspresents in a college dorm room to help a high school musical sell tickets. Today Ludus powers ticketing, fundraising, marketing, and streaming for over 4,000 arts organizations across the US. And his take on AI for arts orgs? It’s not here to replace anyone. It’s here to give us superpowers. 🦸
Full episode on amt-lab.org, link in bio. 🎙
#ludus #artbusiness #artsoftware #nonprofitsart #ticketing
We’re all Swiss cheese. 🧀
Every one of us has holes in our talent, our resources, our skills. The trick? Find people whose holes are the opposite of yours and build a team around that.
Four-time Emmy winner and Hollywood innovator Michael Cioni, founder of @strada.tech , joined us to talk about building teams, taking risks, the future of AI in media workflows, and why the creative and tech worlds aren’t as separate as people think. 🎙
Recorded with Alexann Sharp and Cara Flanery from the @meimprogram at CMU. Full episode on amt-lab.org, link in bio.
#mediatech #hollywoodtech #mediawork #filmindustry #aifilmmaking
AI is karaoke. 🎤
🤔Most people at karaoke can’t sing, and that’s kind of the point. @dvsmethid Derrick Schultz draws one of the most unexpected analogies we’ve heard to explain how artists, critics, and everyday users all relate to AI differently.
And here’s the uncomfortable truth: we don‘t actually know what good AI art looks like yet. The critical framework hasn’t been built.💭
💡So who‘s going to build it?
More conversations like this on AMT Lab. 🔗 Link in bio.
#aieducation #aiart #teachai #arttech #artsmanagement
What does it mean to teach Al to artists who are scared of it?
Oscar Keyes, Ph.D. stopped by CMU to lead an Al workshop, and we had to ask. From student resistance to commercial tools, to getting inside the “black boxes” of Al in the classroom, Oscar breaks down why artists can’t afford to sit this one out.
👉“It‘s not enough to say Al bad, Al good, or even just A
complicated.”
More conversations like this at amt-lab.org 🔗Link in bio.
#aieducation #teachai #arttech #aiart #artsmanagement
Copyright law has never defined “author.”
The U.S. Copyright Office has stated that human authorship is still required for copyright protection. But AI can now generate commercial art in seconds, trained on billions of scraped artworks, most without artists’ knowledge or consent.
When a scientist tried to copyright a fully AI-generated image, courts said no. The Supreme Court refused to even hear the case.
Meanwhile, the AI art market is projected to hit $2.5B+ by 2029.
The law hasn’t caught up. Should it? Drop your take below. ⬇️
📖 Full article by @yaoopei , link in bio.
#copyright #aiart #ip #artistrights #artlaw
Elisa is one of our amazing Entertainment Industry Management students who somehow fits an entire production company’s worth of work into a single day. From experience design class at ETC to staff meetings with AMT Lab to painting carnival booths, her days at Heinz are anything but ordinary. And that festival she’s been playtesting VR headsets? SONA kicks off tomorrow—register at @sona.cmu.festival !
There are schools where art isn’t something students do between “real” classes. It’s the reason they show up.
At @bostonartsacademy , students choose focused tracks in design, studio art, or fashion technology. At @walnuthillarts , they spend two and a half hours in the studio every day, working alongside faculty who are practicing artists.
Both schools treat the arts as the heart of it. And their students carry those skills far beyond the classroom.
For Youth Art Month, we’re highlighting what it looks like when schools build their entire model around the arts. @ellenasarts ’ article is on amt-lab.org, link in bio.
#youthartmonth #arteducation #k12artchat #creativeeducation #techart
🌟March is Youth Art Month, and this year’s theme “The World Needs Art” arrives at a moment when artificial intelligence is reshaping how we teach and learn.
Across the country, educators are already integrating AI into their classrooms. But the data tells a more complicated story: while adoption is high, confidence remains low, and most districts have yet to establish clear guidelines.
Meanwhile, students are forming their own perspectives on what AI means for their education and their futures.
In her latest piece for AMT-Lab, Melida Hernandez examines the barriers standing between educators and meaningful AI integration, and highlights the frameworks beginning to address them.
👉 Read the full article at amt-lab.org. Link in bio.
#youthartmonth #arteducationmatters #aieducation #steam #futureofeducation
