One of the country’s leading arts academies wants AI to be a key part of its offerings.
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts is cutting a deal with Runway AI that would make AI credits and training available for free to students across a number of programs, including the Hyper Cinema Lab, a university-wide initiative run out of the film school. The tech-minded arts programs ITP and ITM will also be part of the arrangement.
“Our film programs have never been about teaching students to become cookie cutter,” Rubén Polendo, dean of Tisch School of the Arts, said in an interview. “Our film programs teach many ways of making films and invite students to weave their own process. This is an invitation to try another mode of working,” added Polendo, who received a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship for AI and Performance.
Runway has licensing deals with a number of schools, including USC, but this formalizes the relationship in a deeper way,
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