After Intelligence

A public inquiry into how AI and automation are reshaping the conditions of cultural production, civic life, and the human imagination.

Day 1 — Contemplating an Algorithmic Future

This opening day examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping human agency, public life, and the cultural imaginaries that define what it means to be human. We will consider how algorithmic systems reorder perception, influence civic and social life, and quietly script everyday experience.

Day One approaches AI as a force that is reorganizing the conditions of contemporary life. Jennifer Granick, Vanessa Chang, and Nora N. Khan each open a different window onto this shifting landscape, illuminating how these systems shape our civic worlds, our embodied and cultural experiences, and the very processes through which meaning and authority take form.

Together, their perspectives converge on a central provocation: if AI is actively rewriting the assumptions that structure human life, how must we rethink our roles—as citizens, creators, and thinkers—in an increasingly algorithmic future?

Each speaker will give a 30 minute presentation, followed by a moderated panel discussion with all presenters.

Speakers: Vanessa Chang, Jennifer Granick, Nora N. Khan

Schedule: February 4, 2026, 3PM - 7:00PM

Day 2 — Making Now and Next: Creative Practice and Worlds to Come

Day Two traces a trajectory from the realities of collaborating with intelligent tools to imagining the futures those tools set in motion. The day moves from questions of craft to questions of consequence, examining how AI is transforming creative labor and reshaping our approaches to authorship, aesthetics, and material intelligence, while also considering how the narratives we build around technology shape the systems we inhabit. The conversations ask not only what these tools can do, but what kinds of worlds they help construct.

The day concludes with a collective conversation linking practice to worldbuilding, opening space to reflect on the futures we might choose to cultivate in an increasingly automated world.

Speakers: Madeline Gannon, Jason Tester, Morehshin Allahyari, Rimma Boshernitsan

Schedule: March 4, 2026, 3PM - 7:00PM

After Intelligence is a collaborative initiative led by Deans Curtis Hidemasa Arima (Fine Arts Division), Jacqueline Francis (Humanities & Sciences), Keith Krumweide (Architecture), Helen Maria Nugent (Design) and Jaime Austin, Senior Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming. The series is supported by the President’s Office, CCA Exhibitions, Academic Division, and the Kari Marboe Endowment.

For questions or accommodation requests, please email rsvp@cca.edu