​ABOUT THE LECTURE

​Over nearly a decade, post-AI and experimental filmmaker Derrick Schultz has built a practice of mutating experimental analog filmmaking through computational algorithms and AI. Drawing from his own personal filmmaking practice and his collaboration with filmmaker Ho Tzu Nyen, Schultz will trace where AI was, where it is, and where it's headed. Against ever-accelerating technological processes and increasing tribalism, Derrick’s lecture proposes that artists must maintain a focused critical perspective that resists the entropy of slop and AI corporatism.

​PROGRAM

​18:30 Walk-in
19:00 Artist Lecture
20:00 Q&A
20:30 Drinks + Chat
21:30 Close

​PRACTICALITIES

​📍 Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam
🗓 20th March 2026
💰 Free attendance
🎫 RSVP required

​ABOUT DERRICK

​Derrick Schultz is a post-AI artist and filmmaker. Utilizing machine learning and other computational techniques, his work explores generative abstraction and algorithmic filmmaking. He has produced work for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and more. Derrick was the Lead Creative Technologist on Ho Tzu Nyen’s Phantoms of Endless Day, a major new work commissioned by the LUMA Foundation utilizingusing generative AI to re-envision the artist’s previously incomplete film. He is a product lead at Titles, helping artists train AI models on their work, maintaining attribution to their original works while allowing a community of creators to explore the artist’s unique style.

​In addition to creating his own practice, Derrick also teaches machine learning to artists, designers, and image makers. He’s an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP and has previously taught at CalArts, SVA, and The New School.

​Learn more about Derrick and his work on his website, Youtube, Instagram, or Linkedin.

​ABOUT AI GREENHOUSE

​AI Greenhouse is a two-year collaboration between the Netherlands Film Academy and AIxDESIGN to research and cultivate (more) responsible approaches to AI in filmmaking and film education.

​Led by artist-researchers Nadia Piet and Pablo Núñez Palma, AI Greenhouse organizes public event programmes, runs artistic experiments, and compiles towards a Creative’s AI Literacy Cookbook — a set of experimental pedagogy practices to contribute to the ethical, sustainable and community-driven integration of AI in filmmaking.

​ABOUT NETHERLANDS FILM ACADEMY

​The Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) is part of the Amsterdam University of the Arts, and the only film school in The Netherlands that trains emerging filmmakers in all subdisciplines: directing, screenwriting, cinematography, editing, sound, production design, visual effects, and interactive media. Based in Amsterdam, it offers hands-on, collaborative education with state-of-the-art facilities and strong industry partnerships.

​ABOUT AIxDESIGN

​AIxDESIGN (AIxD) is an independent organization conducting critical and creative research on AI. We challenge mainstream tech narratives by making space for the rest of us — centering intersectional, inclusive, and ethical approaches through community-led projects. Learn more at aixdesign.co.