AI Literacy Masterclass №2 — Aesthetics and Self-Actualization

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​A masterclass on meaning and machines.

​Today, everyone has access to the same tools. The same models, the same prompts, the same outputs. Which raises a question worth sitting with: what makes your work yours? The answer is aesthetics. Not taste as decoration, but taste as identity, the thing that makes what you create different from others, making the same thing, with the same tools. In a moment when production is cheap and infinite, your aesthetic is the one part of the work that can't be generated. The good news: you already have one. Most of us have just never been asked to name it.

​That's what we'll do together in this masterclass. We'll get specific about your aesthetic — what it is, and how to put words to it. We'll work through ways to model the specificity of your voice: what you make, who you're making it for, and why that answer matters more now than ever.

​We’re going to dig into the bigger question underneath: what self-actualization looks like when machines can do the making.

​You don't need a technical background, and you don't need to think of yourself as an artist. If you make things at work, in a practice, on the side, this evening is for you.

​The 90-minute masterclass will work two ways: as a complete evening on its own, and as your introduction to the course if you'd like to continue.

​This text was written with Claude, from a prompt that was little more than a title and four fragments — including "aesthetics and what makes you different than anyone else who makes the same thing with the same tools." Which is, fittingly, the whole point of the class.