Storytelling with Data and AI

Student work using generative AI to tell the “story of self,” from a course in the Data Science and AI Academy.

On view beginning August 1, 2025

Artistic AI-generated collage of a half Korean, half American girl with culturally-specific interests
A collage from Sammy Taylor's project, "소연 (Soyeon)," depicting an experience of a Korean-American girl.
Artistic AI-generated rendering depicting a student's identity as a Chinese international student
From Ruiyuan Ma's "Between Two Worlds: A Life in Translation," Ma depicts their international student experience.
Artistic AI-generated rendering of failure using stick-figure and cartoon-like imagery
Riley Remy's art from "It's Never a Lack of Effort" that speaks to the cycle of work and failure.
AI-generated rendering of a student grappling with anxiety, burnout, and depression
From "Shadow of the Mind," Julie Monjanel-Townsend explores the emotional journey of a student grappling with their mental health.

About This Exhibit

Join the students of the Data Science and AI Academy's course on Storytelling with Data and AI as they share their final projects. The final project, The Story of Self, draws upon skills and tactics developed over the course of the semester to co/construct an AI-generative image, film, broadside, or some other visual representation to convey a story made with data and AI about the/your self. 

These final projects are the culmination of a course that focuses on the tool, strategies, and opportunities for data and AI to embolden multimodal humanistic storytelling. While AI provides the opportunity for endless generated work, this course explored what is needed to generate a good story. Through artistic AI creation and play, students engaged in AI and data generation through applications such as Luma Dream Machine, Midjourney, Leonardo AI, Adobe Firefly, Krea AI, Flux AI, CapCut, and more. 

Throughout the class, students explored the capabilities and capacities of data and AI as tools for storytelling and self expression. Moreover, this course focused on using the data of self to investigate what gets counted as data, what data looks like, and what data can be used for.

When

On view beginning August 1, 2025

Where

iPearl Innovation Studio, D. H. Hill Jr. Library

Admission

Free and open to the public.

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