Knight Explores AI’s Role in Higher Education at Global Symposium
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape higher education, Emerson College Dean of Faculty Brooke Knight is helping lead the conversation.
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As artificial intelligence continues to reshape higher education, Emerson College Dean of Faculty Brooke Knight is helping lead the conversation.
The film will be screened Monday, March 16, 7:00 pm, in the Bright Family Screening Room. The event is free to members of the Emerson community.
Students are learning how to use artificial intelligence in filmmaking not as a shortcut but as a creative collaborator.
Among Emerson alumni work screening at Sundance 2026 was The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, produced by Daniel Kwan ’10 (of The Daniels / Everything Everywhere All at Once), which follows a father-to-be trying to figure out artificial intelligence.
Emerson was named the #10 film school in the U.S. by TheWrap, with rankings criteria that specifically cited classes addressing cutting-edge technology including artificial intelligence and digital arts.
The announcement of Emerson’s third school cited “virtual production studios, ARRI certification, courses grounded in emerging technologies” and noted that “production facilities for XR, VR, AR, and game design, all grounded in storytelling, equip students to thrive in an evolving media landscape.”
Pillis won Best Presentation at MIT’s DESAI25 workshop for his research on real-time Stable Diffusion in virtual production workflows, conducted in collaboration with Dell Technologies and MIT.
Emerson Contemporary’s exhibition and panel engaged with AI systems through critical inquiry and artistic exploration, including a participatory multimedia performance from the Data Fluencies Theatre Project exploring AI as both a technology and a character.
Introduction of Daniel Pillis, who described learning to calibrate the virtual production facility: “I am so deeply impressed by it and the resource this medium will offer Emerson students.”