TEDxQUT Salon | Navigating AI in the Humanities: a Story of Scepticism, Creativity and Experimentation

Sept 17, 2026 12:00 pm

Presented by the Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice

Event Details:

• 12:00pm – 1:00pm Keynote & Presentations
• 1:00pm – 1:30pm Complimentary Networking Lunch

This TEDxQUT Salon invites you to move beyond the binary question of whether AI is “good” or “bad” and instead explore the more interesting and complicated questions of how, why, and when we choose to use it.

Our keynote speaker, Dan McKewen, will share his experience of incorporating AI into his creative practice, drawing on a longstanding relationship between technology and art. From exhibiting art-video work in 2020 to experimenting with AI as a creative tool, Dan will explore what AI can and can’t do, what it is doing with us and to us, and how a deep and abiding scepticism about the technology doesn’t necessarily preclude engaging with it.

Dan will be joined by four presenters offering perspectives from Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice :

• Lucy Schramm, recently graduated Design student
• Mohana (Mona) Rayaprolu, PhD student with the Digital Media Research Centre
• Harriet Wensley, current Music student
• Dr Shannon Colville, Lecturer, School of Justice

Together, they will explore AI through different disciplinary and personal lenses, considering the possibilities, limitations, opportunities and challenges that emerge when artificial intelligence meets human creativity, scholarship and practice.

Professor Cassandra Cross will lead a Q&A, followed by a complimentary networking lunch.

Grab your free tickets here.