04/30/2026
🎙️ Last week at the SONA Immersive Storytelling Festival .cmu.festival, Amy gave a solo talk about Monsters & Minstrels (), her animated series that uses AR as part of how the story actually works.
She walked us through the whole creative process: from the first animatic to rigging Sam in 3D to the Unity AR build she‘s putting together with CMU programmers.
📖 Amy’s full piece is already up on AMT Lab, and we‘ll be sharing more soon.
✨ By .bamy · MEIM
04/06/2026
Copyright law has never defined “author.”
The U.S. Copyright Office has stated that human authorship is still required for copyright protection. But AI can now generate commercial art in seconds, trained on billions of scraped artworks, most without artists’ knowledge or consent.
When a scientist tried to copyright a fully AI-generated image, courts said no. The Supreme Court refused to even hear the case.
Meanwhile, the AI art market is projected to hit $2.5B+ by 2029.
The law hasn’t caught up. Should it? Drop your take below. ⬇️
📖 Full article by , link in bio.
03/12/2026
There are schools where art isn’t something students do between “real” classes. It’s the reason they show up.
At , students choose focused tracks in design, studio art, or fashion technology. At , they spend two and a half hours in the studio every day, working alongside faculty who are practicing artists.
Both schools treat the arts as the heart of it. And their students carry those skills far beyond the classroom.
For Youth Art Month, we’re highlighting what it looks like when schools build their entire model around the arts. ’ article is on amt-lab.org, link in bio.
03/11/2026
🌟March is Youth Art Month, and this year’s theme “The World Needs Art” arrives at a moment when artificial intelligence is reshaping how we teach and learn.
Across the country, educators are already integrating AI into their classrooms. But the data tells a more complicated story: while adoption is high, confidence remains low, and most districts have yet to establish clear guidelines.
Meanwhile, students are forming their own perspectives on what AI means for their education and their futures.
In her latest piece for AMT-Lab, Melida Hernandez examines the barriers standing between educators and meaningful AI integration, and highlights the frameworks beginning to address them.
👉 Read the full article at amt-lab.org. Link in bio.
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