Speaking, advisory, and moderation on AI, creativity, and the future of human work.

Who I work with

Universities and art schools — visiting artist and guest-critic engagements, lectures, and course design in creative entrepreneurship and the future of art. (See the Teaching page.)

Companies and frontier labs — keynotes, leadership sessions, and advisory on what AI does to human creative value and how to organize a workforce around it.

Conferences and convenings — keynotes, hosting, and onstage moderation on AI, creativity, and the new economy.

Keynotes

A keynote should change what the room believes is possible, and do it with evidence. I build each talk for its audience, in one of two registers.

For culture and the arts — The New Renaissance. Why human creative value concentrates rather than disappears in an AI-accelerated world, what the Renaissance bottega teaches the modern studio, and why the next decade’s most consequential work will come from artists who treat commerce and consciousness as one practice.

For technology, business, and policy — Creativity After AI. Where human creative value actually goes when a machine can generate anything, what post-labor economics means for the creative economy, and why creativity becomes the discipline every organization competes on. Talks include The Last Moat: What Only Humans Will Make, Post-Labor Economics and the Creative Economy, and From Bottega to Frontier Lab: Organizing Human Creativity in the Age of Machines.

Lectures & seminars

For art schools, MFA programs, and universities, I teach across the full range of the practice — the craft, the commerce, the technology, and the mind behind all three.

Art and economy. Creative entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial art practice: building ventures as a form of artmaking. Post-labor economics for the creative economy: what an artist’s livelihood becomes when machines make things, and who owns the platforms the next generation will depend on. Distribution as medium.

Art and mind. The psychology and neuroscience of creative being — flow, attention, and consciousness treated as the artist’s primary material, drawing together research on creativity with two decades of working practice. Joy as a creative and political position.

Art and technology. The future of art, and the future of creative practice in an age of creative destruction. Exponential technology for artists: AI, blockchain, and spatial computing, taught from having built the first VR and blockchain curriculum in a U.S. public high school. Telematic, locative, and networked media. Transmedia storytelling and immersive sound. Design fiction and science-fiction prototyping as tools for making real things.

Art and institutions. Legal conceptualism: art that uses the law, the contract, and the state as its medium. Social practice and social sculpture, art at the scale of a community. The artist as systems designer, and the construction of personas and public selves.

Hosting & moderation

I am a performer as much as a maker, comfortable carrying a room live for two hours, which I have literally done as a work of art. I host and moderate: fireside chats, onstage interviews, and panels, for festivals, conferences, universities, and corporate, government, and institutional clients.

I am at my best drawing out artists, founders, researchers, philosophers of art, and educators — the conversations where the interesting answer only arrives if the questions are good. A moderator’s job is to make the room feel the exchange could not have happened anywhere else, and to make every guest sound like the most articulate version of themselves. I prepare like a journalist, because I trained as one, and I improvise like a performer, because I am one.

Workshops & Curriculum

The Art Morph Atlas is a teaching system before it is a book. I run working sessions built on its frameworks: the Art Morph Canvas for creative business design, the Constraint Flip for teams facing collapsed production costs, the Six Phases of Creative Practice for studios rebuilding their process around new tools. Half-day to multi-day formats, for art schools, creative teams, accelerators, and innovation groups. Participants leave with completed canvases, not notes.

For universities and art schools: visiting artist engagements, guest critiques, lectures, and course design in creative entrepreneurship and the future of art. See the Teaching page.

Advisory

For founders, frontier labs, cultural institutions, and education leaders who need a thinking partner at the intersection of art, technology, and venture building — the rare counsel that understands both the model and the muse. I have raised venture capital, taught exponential technology to executives and founders, advised Fortune 1000 companies, and shipped creative work for two decades. Ongoing engagements are limited and selective. The forge only holds so much iron.