Improbable Intelligence
Improbable Seminar: An Art Thinking Experience
Dec 5 — ESCP Montparnasse (1:00–6:00 pm)
Dec 6 — Fondation Cherqui (9:00 am–7:00 pm)
Over one weekend, we’ll bring together young hackers, entrepreneurs, artists, and designers with executives, investors, scientists and creative leaders to explore a fundamental question to navigate the challenges of our times:
What happens when we let artistic intelligence — not algorithms — redefine the purpose of AI?
The Improbable Seminar is an immersive workshop, labeled as “highly commended” by the Financial Times in 2025, that introduces participants to the Art Thinking method — a creative process that draws from avant-garde artists’ ways of working to help people imagine what doesn’t yet exist.
Co-designed by professor Sylvain Bureau, and artist Pierre Tectin the seminar guides participants through six radical practices — Donate, Deviate, Destroy, Drift, Dialogue, and Display — culminating in the collective creation of a provocative artwork that addresses a real-world challenge.
By embracing uncertainty and artistic exploration, participants experience a profound shift in how they innovate, lead, and make sense of complexity. Join us for this once in a lifetime experience, already diffused in 18 countries and multiple institutions from Stanford to ESCP.
More info: https://artthinkingnetwork.com/ai-x-artistic-intelligence
Pedagogical team:
Christophe Bruno, artist and pioneer in Conceptual Net Art
Sylvain Bureau, ESCP professor and co-creator of the Art Thinking method, Ph.D Ecole Polytechnique
Tim Gilman-Sevcik, artist, PhD in philosophy, New York University lecturer
Ishita Gupta, Stanford graduate teaching assistant and master’s student in computer science
Cyprien (Ming-Wei) Fasquelle, graduate teaching assistant, master’s student, and designer at Stanford University
Organizor:
Partners:
ESCP Business School
Stanford Alumni in France
Fees:
Free of charge for students and artists
Fees for ESCP Alumni & alumni of American universities: 100 EUR
Fees for others: 800 EUR
If you are not a student (otherwise register directly on Luma):