Research Team
Équipe de recherche
À propos de l’équipe de recherche
Nous nous intéressons à ce que les jeunes qui créent de l’art choisissent de faire — ou de ne pas faire — avec l’intelligence artificielle (IA).
Notre équipe de recherche réunit des chercheurs et chercheuses aux cycles supérieurs en enseignement des arts à l’Université Concordia. Ensemble, nous explorons comment les jeunes découvrent, utilisent, adaptent, remettent en question ou choisissent de ne pas utiliser l’intelligence artificielle générative (IA générative) dans leurs pratiques créatives. À la croisée de l’art, de l’éducation, de la culture numérique et des technologies émergentes, nous portons une attention particulière aux choix que font les jeunes et aux significations qu’ils construisent tout au long de leur parcours.
Sous la direction de Juan Carlos Castro, notre équipe aborde la recherche comme un processus collaboratif fondé sur l’écoute, la création, le questionnement et l’apprentissage avec les jeunes.
About the Research Team
We are curious about what young people who make art do or choose not to do with AI.
Our research team brings together graduate researchers in Art Education at Concordia University to explore how young people encounter, use, adapt, question, or refuse generative AI in their creative lives. We work across art, education, digital culture, and emerging technologies, paying close attention to the choices young people make and the meanings they create along the way.
Led by Juan Carlos Castro, our team approaches research as a collaborative process of listening, making, questioning, and learning with young people.
Research Team
Juan Carlos Castro
Principal Investigator
Dr. Juan Carlos Castro is a Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Art Education at Concordia University. His research examines how young people learn through digital media to support their creative practice. He has led multiple SSHRC-funded studies on the creative practices of youth in digital visual learning networks and is editor of Mobile Media in and outside of the Art Classroom: Attending to Identity, Spatiality, Movement, and Materiality (2019) and co-editor of Investigating the Creative Practices of Youth in Digital Visual Learning Networks (2025) with Dr. Joanna Black.
Bonnie Tongjun Guo
Project Manager
Bonnie Tongjun Guo is a PhD student in Art Education at Concordia University, as well as an interdisciplinary researcher and mixed-media artist. Her research focuses on how people form their own judgements, exercise agency, and critically evaluate technologies and their outcomes when artificial intelligence (AI) becomes involved in artistic and cultural practices. She brings together her previous experience as an AI product manager in the technology industry with her academic background in linguistics and literature to explore the relationships among human–AI interaction, creative decision-making, and cultural representation, as well as the ethical issues and evaluation methods involved in technology-mediated cultural and artistic production.
Aaron Ansuini
Consultant
Aaron is an artist, educator, activist, and PhD student in Art Education at Concordia University. His doctoral research attends to ableism as it operates at the level of the teaching profession and teacher education programs in order to identify how ableism comes to constitute the field of art education by shaping who can and cannot become (or practice as) an art educator. His work seeks to explore possibilities for conceiving and practicing art education otherwise by attending to the experiences of disabled art educators (including those who aspired to become art educators but were prevented from doing so) and the ways in which they have made their own artistic and/or pedagogical practices possible within and against conditions that render them impossible.