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Selection of famous artworks hanging on a grid wall

Art or AI?

DCU ADAPT ran a series of community engagement events summarised as follows:


Engaging Parents/Guardians of Younger Children: This is a group that is present daily at Ballymun library while they wait for older children to finish school. We engaged the group during their waiting time through creative AI challenges like “Art or AI?” and Google Quick Draw.
 

Ballymun & Baldoyle U3A Members: We ran workshops in Baldoyle Library (13 March 2024) and Ballymun Library (13 May 2024) with the respective University of the 3rd Age groups. These were hands-on interactive sessions, focusing on “Art or AI?” generating curiosity and discussion about AI in art and its role on creativity and on society more widely.
 

Local Schools: A local Transition Year class from Trinity Comprehensive in Ballymun attended Ballymun Library to participate in a session that explored the role of AI in their lives through hands-on learning.
 

Culture Night at DCU: We hosted an ‘Art or AI?’ interactive workshop at DCU’s Culture Night, challenging attendees to distinguish human-created from AI-generated art, blending technology and creativity in a fun, hands-on experience for all ages.