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THE CARIBBEAN & LATIN AMERICA ADRIAN DUNKLEY ↗

AI for artists and performers

Develop an exhibition or performance plan without misrepresenting a community, a collaborator or the work’s origin.

For: Mixed-media artists, performers, installation makers and community arts organisers.

Start with one task

Draft an exhibition checklist from your own project notes. Keep the artistic decisions yours and check the practical details with the venue. This is a suggested starting point for testing usefulness.

Prepare, check and approve

  1. Define what the tool may help with: scheduling, an application outline, accessibility notes or alternatives for an installation plan. Separate these tasks from claims about the work’s history or meaning.
  2. Ask participants before processing their images, voices, stories or unpublished work. For community or culturally sensitive material, consult the people whose knowledge or traditions are represented.
  3. Check each factual statement in the artist biography and project description. Remove invented exhibitions, awards, quotations and affiliations, even when they make the application sound more persuasive.
  4. Have the venue and relevant specialists assess installation, electrical, structural and audience-safety arrangements. A generated plan does not replace a site inspection or qualified approval.
  5. Prepare accessible descriptions and a process note explaining significant AI use. Keep contributor credits and consent records with the approved exhibition text; agree how a participant can raise a concern.

Protect the work and the people

  • A tool may flatten distinct Caribbean or Latin American traditions into generic imagery. Review representation with people who know the context.
  • Publicly visible cultural material may still raise consent, community and legal questions.
  • Do not present a generated image as documentation of a performance or installation that never happened.

Measure whether it helps

Track planning time and corrections, then ask the venue and collaborators whether the material answered their practical questions. Record accessibility gaps and representation concerns separately.

When to pause

Pause use of disputed cultural material or participant data until consent and representation concerns are resolved. Stop installation work when safety approval is missing.

Sources and next steps

The workflow is the author's proposed application of copyright awareness and responsible AI principles. These references provide background; they do not certify this workflow or settle an individual legal question.

Read the charter and multilingual pledge or choose another creative role.

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Dunkley, Adrian. “AI for artists and performers.” LAC AI Playbook. https://aiplaybooklac.netlify.app/creators/artists/. Include your access date when citing this changing resource.

Geographic coverage: Latin America and the Caribbean. This describes the subject of the guidance, not the author's location or a service address.

Credit Adrian Dunkley when quoting or adapting the playbook. Cite the original research for its findings. Third-party text, photographs and other materials retain their own rights; citation alone does not grant permission to reproduce them.