Join ArtCenter College of Design and the larger Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) community for the AICAD Symposium, the annual gathering on teaching and learning in art and design, held at ArtCenter College of Design’s campus in Pasadena, CA on November 13th-15th, 2024.
This year, 2024, presents great challenges for creative and professional practice in ways that echo the massive moments of change from the past. How can we, as educators, prepare students and our own communities for this new world of teaching, learning and working? What traditions remain intact in this emerging landscape and where do we look for guidance and inspiration as we make our way forward?
This year’s gathering will explore four major threads of the current educational landscape:
Please join us as we gather to explore how we will teach for tomorrow (and re-design the future!)
AICAD Member Registration: $475
(you must register using your institutional email)
Non-Member Registration: $575
One-Day Registration: $175
Registration includes access to all conference sessions, keynote speakers, receptions, as well as breakfast and lunch during conference hours.
Symposium activities will be held at South Campus.
Graduate Education
Gabrielle Jennings, Elise Co
Pedagogy & Practice
Nate Page
Pedagogy & Practice
Derek Wood
Graduate Education
John Britton
Artificial Intelligence
Speaker to be added shortly
Artificial Intelligence
Ivan Cruz
Artificial Intelligence
Carla Diana
New Learners & New Pathways
Jessica Visconti, Laura Bustos Ortiz
Pedagogy & Practice
Joshua Halstead, Monica Schlaug, Jennifer May
New Learners & New Pathways
Jennifer Moon, Lorinda Toledo
Artificial Intelligence
Adam Tindale, Emilie Brancato, Lori Riva
Pedagogy & Practice
Kari Weaver, Jean-Marie Venturini
Symposium activities will be held at Hillside Campus.
Pedagogy & Practice
Shanna Dobson
New Learners & New Pathways
Asher Ghaffar, Susan Ferguson
Artificial Intelligence
Lauren Cantor
New Learners & New Pathways
Polly Geller
Graduate Education
Tamara Peyton, Sean Donahue, Joanne Kersh
Pedagogy & Practice
Ozzy Alvarez
Pedagogy & Practice
Nancy Nowacek, Melissa Rands
Pedagogy & Practice
Speaker to be added shortly
New Learners & New Pathways
Kerri Steinberg, JoAnn Staten
New Learners & New Pathways
Michael Stone-Richards
Artificial Intelligence
David Pemberton, Shea'la Finch
Artificial Intelligence
Micki Harrington, Tannaz Motevalli, Susan Kun
Pedagogy & Practice
Stella Hernandez
Graduate Education
Matthew Roberts, Aliza Shvarts
Pedagogy & Practice
Bianca Nozaki-Nasser
Pedagogy & Practice
Armando Zuniga
New Learners & New Pathways
Nita Sturiale, Martha Rettig, Adriana Katzew
Artificial Intelligence
Michelle Miller
Pedagogy & Practice
Rita Blaik
Graduate Education
Stephanie Sabo, Roman Jaster
New Learners & New Pathways
Jacqueline Turner, Jamie Hilder
Pedagogy & Practice
Natalie Salvador, TeaYoun Kim-Kassor, Moira Connelly
Artificial Intelligence
Dimitris Papadopoulos, Griffin Smith
Artificial Intelligence
Christine Meinders, Alex Jacob, Collette Williams Alleyne
Artificial Intelligence
Julian Scaff
View the PST ART: Art and Science Collide exhibition, Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art. Curators will be on hand. An exhibition reception will be held at the adjacent Boardroom.
This multifaceted exhibition explores how contemporary art, design and culture respond to data’s impact on daily life. Drawing attention to prescient concepts regarding the selection, collection, and dissemination of data, the exhibition considers data visualization as a practice and as a model for deeper exploration.
Part of Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide, the exhibition features the work of more than 16 artists and designers, including Refik Anadol, Data to Discovery, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Giorgia Lupi and Ehren Shorday, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Semiconductor, Mika Tajima, Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, Margaret Wertheim and Christine Wertheim, and others.
How do we make sense of big data? This conversation features artists and designers at the forefront of data visualization practice and education. Panelists include Santiago Lombeyda and Hillary Mushkin, both from the Data to Discovery initiative; and Jason Forrest and Jen Ray of Data Vandals, artists-in-residence in ArtCenter’s Designmatters social impact program for the Fall 2024 term. Moderated by Maggie Hendrie, dean of ArtCenter's Media and Technology and organized in conjunction with Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art and the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide.
The work of Safiya Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, brings a valuable critical lens to design and technology that raises important questions around issues which societies around the globe continue to grapple. As AI and algorithms continue working their way into the public imagination, Noble deepens our understanding of their potential for harm and enables us to advocate for better futures.
Dr. Safiya U. Noble is the David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies, and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the Center on Race & Digital Justice and Co-Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Tech & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She currently serves as Interim Director of the UCLA DataX Initiative, leading work in critical data studies for the campus.
Professor Noble is the author of the best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic harm in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications. In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination.
For more details, please visit Dr. Noble’s website
Symposium activities will be held at South Campus.
Graduate Education
Gerardo Herrera, Amanda MeiGerardo Herrera, Amanda Mei
Graduate Education
Nicole Hall
Pedagogy & Practice
Wendee Lee, Michelle Constantine Hibbs
New Learners & New Pathways
Lorinda Toledo, Shelby Lindsley
Artificial Intelligence
Javier Palomares, Gerardo Herrera
New Learners & New Pathways
Lynn Palewicz, Robert Goodman
Graduate Education
Robert Dirig, Joshua Halstead, Elise Co
Pedagogy & Practice
Michelle Miller, Lori Riva
New Learners & New Pathways
Celeste Guarneri
Artificial Intelligence
Reuben Merringer, Amelia Yessayantz
New Learners & New Pathways
Kristina Lamour Sansone, Aaron Bruce, Tracy Shiffman
Questions? Contact us at ProDev@ArtCenter.edu
Part of Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide
AICAD has secured a block of rooms at the Westin Pasadena at a rate of $199 per night. Located centrally in Pasadena’s Old Town, The Westin Pasadena is the only hotel in Pasadena with a pool on the rooftop, overlooking views to Historic Old Town, Historic City Hall, and the San Gabriel mountains.
If you are coming to the AICAD Symposium from out of state, the planning committee recommends arriving via the Hollywood Burbank Airport. From the airport, both the Westin and ArtCenter campus are just 16 miles (20 mins on average) by car/taxi/ride share.
If you are arriving by car, there is parking available both at the hotel ($22 per night) and nearby campus.
AICAD – the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design – is a non-profit consortium of the leading specialized arts and design schools in the US and Canada. Founded in 1991, the mission is to help strengthen the member colleges individually and collectively, and to inform the public about these colleges and universities and the value of studying the arts and design.
AICAD institutions educate more than 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students each year, plus many thousands more in summer and continuing education programs. Our students are drawn from all 50 US states and more than 60 countries. Over 70% of these students receive financial aid to support their education.