LaSalle College Vancouver / Jan 14, 2026 / Creative AI fieldwork
A dark media console built from the keynote, slides, clips, transcript, and exercises. Use it to ask the question that matters: what does AI reveal about your practice, and what do you refuse to give away?
AI is trained on stolen work without consent. And many creatives are becoming more capable because of these tools.
Both things are true. Hold both. Keep walking.
Consent, labor, dependency, pipeline collapse, cheap sameness.
Agency, taste, self-knowledge, prototypes, community, new practice.
The portal is a studio lab bench, not a landing page: watch a chapter, mark your stance, produce a fieldbook artifact, then find the people who can keep you honest.
The Talk Console
Slides, transcript-backed moments, and media fragments are pulled into one console so the talk works even when you do not watch the whole thing.
Most conversations about AI force you to pick a side. This talk starts by refusing the binary.
The LaSalle room was full of alumni, students, educators, and creative professionals trying to name what is actually happening. The console starts there: not hype, not panic, but a usable map.
Source: recap.md executive summary and speaker-script.md opening frame.
Open the mapTraining on your own work
Two thousand cross-processed portraits became a model trained on a personal archive, not a generic scrape.
Write for the bot
The fieldbook exercises turn voice, values, and refusals into text you can carry into any AI workflow.
Left Hand / Right Hand Map
The map turns the talk's thesis into a student decision surface: name the fear, name the possibility, then choose how you will practice.
Selected concern
Creative work was swept into datasets without clear permission. The fieldbook answer is not pretending this is fine; it is building practice with visible ethics, personal policy, and a kill switch.
Studio Exercises
Your notes stay in this browser. Export the final fieldbook as Markdown when you want to move it into Notion, a class folder, or an AI custom instruction.
Studio Weird Tool Shelf
These do not change the core 6/6 console. They are strange little studio tools for worldview, consent, slop, prototypes, and finding the room.
Your portable artifact
Collect the six widget artifacts into one Markdown page. It is intentionally plain so it can move anywhere.
Run This In Class
Use the console as a critique-room instrument: students make a decision, explain the tradeoff, export the artifact, then bring one line into discussion.
Case Files
The portal keeps the case files lean: enough context to learn from the pattern, not a full archive dump.
Compressed UX research and prototyping from weeks to hours while staying critical inside the workflow.
A 25-year Hollywood veteran turned AI into a performance system, not a replacement for judgment.
Kris used his cross-process portrait archive as source material for a personal model and research project.
Small working artifacts reveal what you need faster than endless planning when the goal is learning.
DJs, remixers, and students all face the same question: what do you choose, and why?
Confusion in gives confusion back with better grammar. Clear identity gives the machine something real to amplify.
Community Funnel
Learning leads. The next step is not another abstract thinkpiece. It is people, practice, and a place to keep testing your taste.
Artists, designers, engineers, researchers, and students comparing what is actually working.
BC + AI EcosystemA province-wide association for responsible, inclusive, community-rooted AI in British Columbia.
The UpgradeTraining for creative professionals rebuilding their practice around AI without flattening the hard questions.
Kris KrugTalks, essays, workshops, photography, and the broader archive of creative AI practice.