What if your personal archives were the foundation for your own AI? Come demystify machine learning with us by working with small, human-scale datasets that you assemble yourself. 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 Intensive In this 10-week online course, you’ll use your own creative inputs as the foundation for training custom image, text, and audio models. We’ll cover practical techniques for LoRA fine-tuning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for text, and RAVE for audio synthesis. Through hands-on projects and conversations, students will develop a nuanced understanding of data collection and the labor behind AI systems. By the end, you’ll have a handmade dataset and a trained model, developed into a final project. This course is led by artist and programmer Aarati Akkapeddi aarati.online, whose work explores the connections between memory and technology. 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐈 Enroll by February 13 (limited capacity) February 23 – April 27, 2026 Mondays, 4 – 7 PM PT Enroll: (link in bio)