AI for work
Using current AI tools to draft, research, storyboard, caption and organise — with a clear view of limits, bias, copyright and when a human still has to decide.
Why this exists
Live work still pays in door takes. Digital work pays in the weeks between.
North Queensland makers already know how to fill a room. Fewer have been shown how to cut a video, write a caption that travels, stand up a simple site, host their catalogue, or use AI as a junior assistant rather than a replacement. The Digital Lab is that showing-how.
Curriculum
Practical units, not a prospectus full of vapour.
Digital arts
From projection and décor practice into screen-native work: composition, colour, simple generative pipelines, and preparing files that venues and platforms will actually accept.
Basic video and image editing
Cuts, titles, loudness, exports. Enough editing to turn a phone night into a clip you can stand behind.
Social content, vlogging, uploading
Planning a piece, shooting it, writing the text around it, and getting it onto platforms without burning a week on settings.
Basic websites and deployment
A page that loads, a domain that points, a form that reaches a person. Deployment to hosts such as Cloudflare Pages — the same stack this site uses.
Introductory web apps and hosting your work
Small interactive pieces, portfolios, ticket or archive pages. How hosting, DNS and www redirects actually work so you are not locked to a single vendor.
Income
Skills are only useful if they can pay rent.
Each unit ends on use: a clip for a promoter, a site for a practice, a shop link, a grant-ready work sample, a caption bank, a hosted archive of a night that would otherwise vanish. We talk plainly about platforms, fees, invoicing and the difference between exposure and a fee.
- Artists packaging live work for promoters and grant panels.
- Culture workers documenting process for hire.
- Community members starting a small digital service or shopfront.
- Unemployed and under-employed people adding portable skills.
Access
Who the Lab is for.
Priority sits with First Nations communities, regional residents, young people and older people, people with disability, LGBTIQA+ communities, culturally diverse communities and people under financial pressure. Sessions are designed to be joinable without a design degree or a new laptop, though we will say honestly when a tool needs a machine we can share.