gen-ai

Art and Generative AI, Spring 2025 (60-228)
Prof. Golan Levin, CMU School of Art

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Key Links

• The Syllabus can be found here
• A presentation for #LTT2026 can be found here

Daily Notes

• Tue 01/14 Hello
• Thu 01/16 Hello II
• Tue 01/21 The Reimagined Body
• Thu 01/23 No session, Golan away
• Tue 01/28 Intro to Stable Diffusion
• Thu 01/30 Intro to ComfyUI
• Tue 02/04 ComfyUI II: LoRA
• Thu 02/06 ComfyUI Worksession
• Tue 02/11 Sam Lavigne visit
• Thu 02/13 Project Presentations Continued; intro to Unit 3
• Tue 02/18 Capture Machines, Datasets
• Thu 02/20 Capture Machines, Ffmpeg, BSoup
• Tue 02/25 UMAP/t-SNE
• Thu 02/27 LoRA
• Thu 03/11 Worksession, updates
• Thu 03/13 No session, Golan sick
• Tue 03/18 Project 3 Presentations
• Thu 03/20 Project 3 Presentations continued
• Tue 03/25 Assignment 4.x work session
• Tue 04/01 Assignment 4 Discussions
• Tue 04/08 Begin Final Projects!

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Assignments and Due Dates

• Tue 01/14: --
• Thu 01/16: Due: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
• Tue 01/21: Due: 1.5, 1.6
• Thu 01/23: Work session (Golan away).
• Tue 01/28: Due: 1.7
• Thu 01/30: Due: 2.1, 2.2
• FEB -----
• Tue 02/04: Due: 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
• Thu 02/06: Work session.
• Tue 02/11: Assignment 2.7 (System) Due. Sam Lavigne class visit (8:00pm).
• Thu 02/13:
• Tue 02/18: Due 3.0-3.3
• Thu 02/20:
• Tue 02/25: Due 3.4
• Thu 02/27: Due 3.5 (UMAP/t-SNE mosaic)
• MAR -----
• Tue 03/04: No session (Spring Break)
• Thu 03/06: No session (Spring Break)
• Tue 03/11:
• Thu 03/13: No session (Golan sick)
• Tue 03/18: Assignments #3.7 Due.
• Thu 03/20: Due 4.1 (Tinkerplan)
• Tue 03/25: Due 4.2 (Readings)
• Thu 03/27:
• APR -----
• Tue 04/01: Assignments #4.3 Due. Kyle McDonald class visit.
• Thu 04/03: No session (Spring Carnival)
• Tue 04/08: Due: 5.1, Project Proposal
• Thu 04/10:
• Tue 04/15: Due: 5.2, Technical Milestone
• Thu 04/17:
• Tue 04/22: Due: 5.3, Draft Artwork
• Thu 04/24:
• Thu 05/01: Due: 5.4, Final Project Presentation
• Mon 05/05: Due: 5.5, Final Project Documentation