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Event description
News • AI meets creativity:
KIO as a guest at the Pioneers Club
On February 25, 2025, we were guests at the Pioneers Club Bielefeld. As part of the Digital Gym, this afternoon was all about the question: What role does artificial intelligence play in creative processes - today and in the future? Our colleagues Anna-Lena Büker and Conrad Dreyer were there to share insights, ideas and lots of practical examples relating to AI and creativity.
Speaker
Conrad Dreyer
Anna-Lena Büker
Date
Tuesday, 25. February 2025
Location
Pioneers Club | Bielefeld
Inspiration instead of replacement
Anna-Lena Büker kicked things off with an insight into the latest developments in AI-supported creative tools. What tools are available? Where are the opportunities - but also the pitfalls? The focus was not on the technology itself - but on how we use it creatively. Because AI only delivers what we give it. Context, objective, visual language, style: all of this determines whether a generated image becomes a strong visual statement or just an interchangeable motif.
AI is no substitute for creative minds - but it is an exciting sparring partner. If you understand it and use it correctly, you can make new ideas tangible much faster.
Conrad Dreyer + Anna-Lena Büker
It quickly became clear that AI does not change what creativity is - but it does change how and where it is created. It doesn't take thinking away from us, but it opens doors to new ways of expression. As a tool in our creative repertoire, it becomes particularly powerful when we fill it with our own vision and intention.
Hands-On with ComfyUI
In the second part of the session, Conrad Dreyer took over and showed the participants how to completely rethink creative workflows with ComfyUI - flexible, modular and open source. Instead of One Click Magic, he worked with nodes, different models and parameters - transparent, comprehensible and surprisingly intuitive. Or as we would say: Creative power you can build yourself.
The deep dive was complemented by Anna-Lena Büker, who showed how so-called LoRAs (Low-Rank Adaptations) can be used to train completely customised image styles, objects or even people and seamlessly integrate them into the creative process - with surprisingly little data and effort. An impressive example of how AI tools can be flexibly adapted to individual requirements.
AI doesn't change the rules - but it does change the playing field.
For us as a creative and transfer institute, it is precisely this change that is particularly exciting: How do we redesign creative processes? How do we utilise AI as a partner in digital media production? And what does this mean for the training and creative practice of tomorrow?