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2025: Special issue - Explorations in Art and AI: Reimagining Sustainability Through Student Vision
Cover image for the Future Earth Student Journal, Special Issue 1 (Summer 2025), titled Explorations in Art and Artificial Intelligence: Reimagining Sustainability Through Student Vision. The background features crocheted textile art in shades of teal, navy, pink, and cream, created by Kaitlyn Bartlett (2024). Overlaid text in bold, stylized font reads “Explorations in Art and Artificial Intelligence,” with the word "Art" highlighted in a contrasting beige. The journal’s title, tagline “A Student Journal on Sustainability and Environment,” and the editor’s name, Peter Tsigaris, appear at the top. The design reflects the creative and sustainable themes explored in the special issue.

This special issue of Future Earth features ten visionary student artists from Twyla Exner’s course, VISA 3830: Explorations in Art and AI (Fall 2024), whose work was originally exhibited at TRU’s Explorations in Art and AI gallery show. Inspired by the power and originality of their pieces, this collection brings their work into broader view—preserving it and sharing it beyond the walls of the gallery.

Through generative AI, these students explored sustainability not only as an environmental concern, but as a complex, evolving concept—deeply intertwined with ethics, culture, and technology. Under Twyla’s mentorship, they used AI tools to challenge assumptions, expand their creative practices, and push the boundaries of what art can be and do in the age of artificial intelligence.

Their work aligns deeply with the mission of Future Earth: to spotlight student inquiry and innovation that reimagines a more just, sustainable, and creative future.

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Note: This Future Earth Journal Special Issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) to respect the creative rights of the contributing artists.

This means that you are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.

Under the following terms:

  • Attribution (BY): You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
  • NonCommercial (NC): You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
  • NoDerivatives (ND): If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.

This license ensures the works in this Special Issue can be shared widely for educational and scholarly purposes, while also protecting the artistic integrity of the contributors by preventing alterations and commercial reuse.

Published: 2025-09-10

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Future Earth: A Student Journal on Sustainability and Environment

At Thompson Rivers University, this is a free, open-access journal available in both online and print PDF formats. It reflects the intellectual curiosity and achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students and showcases their outstanding research, with a focus on sustainability. Recognizing the crucial role student research plays in generating new knowledge, the journal provides a platform for students to share their work with a broader audience.

We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity, and welcome contributions from students of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our distinguished editorial board is dedicated to guiding student authors and upholding the highest standards of academic excellence and integrity.

We are proud to be part of their academic journey and hope this journal will inspire the next generation of scholars while contributing meaningfully to the field.