2025: Special issue - Explorations in Art and AI: Reimagining Sustainability Through Student Vision

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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