TMP AI Boot Camp
Four days of hands-on experiments in image, video, 3D, audio, and creative code help students at any starting point build AI literacy and computational literacy. Students make portfolio artifacts, but the portfolio is the receipt, not the point: the goal is to understand how generative systems behave, how prompts and seeds constrain outcomes, and how to think with computation.
9 AM - 1 PM · Room 327A · 0.5 elective credit · Instructor: Ira Greenberg
Led by Ira Greenberg, author of Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art (friends of ED/Apress, 2007), this boot camp is for 15 high school age students. No coding background is assumed. The rhythm is direct: watch a short demo, build together, work independently, then explain what changed and what it revealed about the system.
A continuation of the Creative Computing tradition (Papert, Maeda, Reas, Resnick, Shiffman) — extended to generative AI.
Seeing through the model
A prompt is a draft. Generative imagery is a conversation, not a search.
Time, dimension, edits
Once you can make an image, you can edit it, move it, and lift it off the page.
Code as a brush
When you write a few lines of code, the model becomes a paintbrush you designed.
Author, audience, ethics
Now that you can make things, what do you have to say, and what do you owe your audience?
Read the ethics first. The rules on likeness, consent, citation, and environmental cost are part of the studio practice, not an afterthought.